The exclusion of pregnant women in vaccine trials has done little to win over a sceptical demographic, who have long been marginalised by the medical establishment
When the Australian government launched its $24m Covid-19 vaccine information campaign this week, key among the primary targets were women aged 30-39, who were found to be the most vaccine-hesitant group in the Australian population by health department research.
Similar patterns of vaccine hesitancy among women have been found globally. So the question on everybody’s lips is: what’s driving it? The answer is we don’t know, because we haven’t asked.
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Women do often have lower levels of trust in the medical establishment, because they are not taken seriously.
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