Opinion: Governments need people’s trust to stop an outbreak. Where does that leave us?
We’ve also seen this in the United States. Prior to the availability of the measles vaccine in the 1960s, tens of thousands of children were hospitalized and hundreds died from measles every year. The vaccine was so effective that by 2000, measles was declared to be eliminated in this country. Unfortunately, conspiracy theories linking vaccines to unrelated ailments have proliferated.
Governments themselves shoulder much of the blame for the erosion of trust. Chinese citizens are skeptical because the government
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