José Gómez Rial
Head of the Immunology Department at the Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago de Compostela (CHUS), Servicio Gallego de Salud (SERGAS)
It is a paradox that, at a time when a vaccine is allowing us to emerge from a pandemic that has caused more than 6 million deaths worldwide, we are witnessing the greatest drop in vaccination coverage of other vaccines in three decades.
Although the reasons for this drop are related to the disruption in access to vaccines caused by the pandemic, as the WHO rightly points out, we must continue to build confidence in vaccination through evidence-based communication and combat misinformation, which in my opinion is now the greatest danger we face: losing confidence in vaccination, which has saved so many lives in the history of mankind.