Editorial: Disinformation kills
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Editorial: Ramping up health literacy
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SunStar Editorial: Securing trust for vaccination
DIALOGUE, NOT PUNISHMENT. Threatening to jail persons who refuse to be vaccinated is counterproductive to earning the trust and cooperation of individuals and communities that must work together for the Philippines to survive and thrive after the Covid-19 pandemic. (SunStar file)
+ June 27, 2021 The threat to arrest Filipinos who refuse to be vaccinated is ill-advised as the punitive measure hardly addresses the roots of the country’s dismal vaccination figures.
Since the government implemented last March 1 the National Deployment and Vaccination Plan for Covid-19 Vaccines, only 2.25 million Filipinos, representing 2.1 percent of the total population of 108.1 million, were fully vaccinated as of June 22, according to ourworldindata.org. The website, a collaboration between Oxford University and the non-profit organization Global Change Data Lab, uses data from official sources.