UPDATE MAY 22, 2021
“I hope that the Rome Declaration will lead the international community to put an end to this Covid-19 pandemic in the only way possible: in a fair way”. Thus Bill Gates, president of the Bill and Melissa Gates Foundation, in his videoconference speech at the Global Health Summit organized in Rome on the initiative of the Italian presidency of the G20. Gates, founder of Microsoft and one of the richest philanthropists in the world, said he hoped that “today’s summit will help create a set of principles and actions for developing pandemic preparedness skills that will also serve as a basis for future discussions of the G7 and the G20 planned for this year “.
12). However, the temporal variations of psychobehavioral responses have not been examined.
In addition to psychobehavioral responses, unique to COVID-19 is its unprecedented massive epidemic size compared with other recent outbreaks, such that vaccination becomes the exit strategy. However, despite vaccine availability, vaccine doubters may hamper the global effort against COVID-19 (
13). Unraveling the reasons behind vaccine hesitancy and monitoring its trends over time will support the design of interventions to boost COVID-19 vaccine uptake.
We report a longitudinal analysis of 5 representative population-based surveys of adults in Hong Kong on their psychological, behavioral, and vaccine-related responses, conducted during the first 2 waves of the COVID-19 epidemic. Our main objectives were tracking major psychobehavioral responses (including risk perception, psychological distress, and adoption of precautionary measures) over time and examining the determinants of the intent
The multibillion-dollar Covax program was supposed to be a model for vaccinating humanity, starting with those who needed it the most. The idealistic undertaking has hit problem after problem, crippled by a basic me-first instinct and a shortage of manufacturing capacity around the world.