![]() ![]() Several studies in UK and Poland had supported the reality that fearing the vaccine symptoms is the most outstanding and frequent reason of vaccination aversion. only 2% of population had been vaccinated. Regarding vaccine status in Iraq, a total of 441 121 people had received the vaccine by 10th of May, with almost 15 000 vaccinations every day, i.e. However, a study performed in Kurdistan region of Iraq, reported a decline in the mortality rate from November 2020 to February 2021, which was assumed to be due to natural immunity to the virus to an extent. It had passed through 2 prominent waves of transmission, the last of which had been initiated in the second half of January 2021. Since the beginning of the pandemic until May 22, 2021, Iraq had reported a total of 1 164 149 confirmed cases and 16 158 deaths of SARS-CoV2 infection. Vaccine hesitancy (VH) refers to a delay of vaccine acceptance in spite of its existence, researchers consider it as a public health challenge nourished by misleading and inaccurate information of vaccines in terms of safety and efficacy. Despite that, Sinopharm was the 1st vaccine that had been administered to Iraqi population and acceptable as WHO's target was an efficacy of more than 50%. While the inactivated SARS-CoV-2 vaccine, BBIBP-CorV, developed by Sinopharm (Beijing, China) is safe and effective with a seroconversion of 92%–100%, its T cell responses after vaccination is low compared to the other two leading to its low effectiveness. Researchers found that efficacy of AstraZeneca and Pfizer vaccine is 70% and 95% respectively. On December 31, 2020, mRNA vaccine “Pfizer BioNTech”, and on February 15, 2021, the adenoviral vector vaccines ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 (AstraZeneca-Oxford) were granted emergency use. The World Health Organization (WHO) had declared the release of covid 19 vaccines in September 2020. Hence, there was an international urgent demand to develop vaccines by the scientific community. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has spread viciously across the world with millions of infected people and deaths. ![]()
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