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Launching an interactive map on Covid-19 vaccination policies

Authors: Dimitra Panagiotatou, Stella Ladi, and Angelos Angelou* Vaccine hesitancy has alarmed governments anxious to return to normality for economic and political reasons. Unlike other vaccination programmes, the Covid-19 one has been subject to extraordinary levels of politicisation. Conspiracy theories disseminated via fake news have transformed the universal fight against a global health threat into a controversial…

Why COVID-19 Vaccination Passports Are a Bad Idea

Vaccination is underway and it is great news… However, according to the WHO, “94% of countries that have started vaccinating their populations are in the high- or high-middle income category.” Despite the efforts of WHO with COVAX (the vaccines pillar of the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator), around 2.5 billion people living in 130…

Why Academia should improve Wikipedia

Academics should improve Wikipedia articles to ensure the public have access to accurate and unbiased information, whatever language they speak, writes Vaidotas Norkus.