No case for avoiding vaccination against COVID-19 based on alleged lack of vaccine efficacy
Widespread uptake of vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 infection is limited by a minority in the population who decline to be vaccinated. The proportion varies between centres, and several reasons for non-vaccination exist or are stated. These include social reasons, especially (in Australia) in remote indigenous communities; medical reasons in patients with impaired immunity and like diseases; distaste at administration of foreign compounds and other forms of disagreement with the principles of vaccination; and disbelief that in the case of COVID-19 the