Your playlist will load after this ad The signatures on the letter, which focuses on the Pfizer vaccine, include some general practitioners. Source: 1 NEWS
The fact they signed in their professional capacity has led to concerns it could expose patients to misinformation, raise the risk of vaccine hesitancy and subsequently undermine the rollout.
In her role as a research fellow at the University of Auckland, Kate Hannah is looking into disinformation. She says the letter that is seemingly signed by a number of medical professionals is concerning . Rather than speaking as an individual who might have some concerns with, perhaps, the way in which the vaccine rollout is going, they are doing it in a position as a doctor and thus kind of implying there are broad concerns, which really isn t the case.
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