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ReviewVaccines2021

The Strategies to Support the COVID-19 Vaccination with Evidence-Based Communication and Tackling Misinformation.

Piotr Rzymski, Leszek Borkowski, Marcin Drąg, Robert Flisiak, Jacek Jemielity, Jacek Krajewski, Agnieszka Mastalerz-Migas, Andrzej Matyja, Krzysztof Pyrć, Krzysztof Simon and 4 more

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Review in Vaccines, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 88 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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88citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

88 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  4. Country readiness in responding to COVID-19 Vaccine-Related Events (VREs) in Malawi.Malawi medical journal : the journal of Medical Association of Malawi · 2026
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  6. Social Perception, Trust, and Reluctance Towards Vaccines: A Bibliometric Analysis (2019-2025).International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026
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  12. What's in a word? Defining "gene therapy medicines".Molecular therapy. Methods & clinical development · 2024
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  16. When Public Health Terms Become Vernacular.American journal of public health · 2024
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28 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors.

Piotr RzymskiDepartment of Environmental Medicine, Poznan University of Medical Sciences, 60-806 Poznań, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-4713-0801
Leszek BorkowskiThe Foundation "Together in Disease", 05-252 Dąbrówka, Poland.
Marcin DrągDepartment of Chemical Biology and Bioimaging, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, 50-370 Wroclaw, Poland.
Robert FlisiakDepartment of Infectious Diseases and Hepatology, Medical University of Bialystok, 15-540 Białystok, Poland.ORCID 0000-0003-3394-1635
Jacek JemielityCentre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw, 02-097 Warsaw, Poland.ORCID 0000-0001-7633-788X
Jacek KrajewskiThe Federation of Healthcare Employers' Unions "Porozumienie Zielonogórskie", 65-048 Zielona Góra, Poland.
Agnieszka Mastalerz-MigasDepartment of Family Medicine, Wroclaw Medical University, 50-367 Wroclaw, Poland.
Andrzej MatyjaSupreme Medical Council of the Polish Supreme Chamber of Physicians and Dentists, 00-764 Warsaw, Poland.
Krzysztof PyrćVirogenetics Laboratory of Virology, Malopolska Centre of Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, 30-387 Krakow, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-3867-7688
Krzysztof SimonDepartment of Infectious Diseases and Hepatology, Wrocław Medical University, 51-149 Wrocław, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-8040-0412
Michał SutkowskiCollege of Family Physicians in Poland, 00-209 Warsaw, Poland.
Jacek WysockiDepartment of Preventive Medicine, Poznań University of Medical Sciences, 60-179 Poznań, Poland.
Joanna ZajkowskaDepartment of Infectious Diseases and Neuroinfections, Medical University of Bialystok, 15-540 Białystok, Poland.
Andrzej FalCollegium Medicum, Warsaw Faculty of Medicine, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University, 01-938 Warsaw, Poland.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

COVID-19 vaccinations are about to begin in various countries or are already ongoing. This is an unprecedented operation that is also met with a loud response from anti-vaccine communities-currently using all available channels to manipulate public opinion. At the same time, the strategy to educate on vaccinations, explain their mechanism of action, and build trust in science is subdued in different world parts. Such actions should go much beyond campaigns promoting the COVID-19 vaccines solely on the information provided by the health institutions and national authorities. In this paper, actions provided by independent expert groups needed to counteract the anti-vaccine propaganda and provide scientific-based information to the general public are offered. These actions encompass organizing groups continuously communicating science on COVID-19 vaccines to the general public; tracking and tackling emerging and circulating fake news; and equipping celebrities and politicians with scientific information to ensure the quality of messages they communicate, as well as public letters, and statements of support for vaccination by healthcare workers, recognized scientists, VIPs, and scientific societies; and no tolerance to false and manipulated claims on vaccination spread via traditional and social media as well as by health professionals, scientists, and academics. These activities should be promptly implemented worldwide, regardless of the current status and availability of the COVID-19 vaccine in a particular region. If we are about to control the pandemic for the sake of public benefit, it is high time to collectively speak out as academic and medical societies with support from decision-makers. Otherwise, the battle will be lost to those who stand against scientific evidence while offering no feasible solution to the problem.

Indexed as

COVID-19misinformationscience communicationvaccinevaccine hesitancy

Identifiers

PMID33535716
PMCPMC7912910

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