Encouraging vaccinations though equitable strategies 2021

The goal of vaccination strategies The goal of vaccination is to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and its devastating impacts of severe illness, hospitalization, and death. [...] 7 The federal and provincial governments are beginning to provide guidance and to reduce public health restrictions that are benchmarked to vaccination rates – for example, Ontario proposed to require that 70-80 per cent of adults have one dose before it moved to the third phase of its three-step reopening plan,8 and the Public Health Agency of Canada issued guidance that indoor restrictions could. [...] The relevant results were reviewed and synthesized according to intervention on a 5-point scale: (1) very unlikely to increase vaccine uptake; (2) unlikely to increase vaccine uptake; (3) potential to increase vaccine uptake; (4) likely to increase vaccine uptake; and (5) very likely to increase vaccine uptake. [...] In the face of limited global vaccine availability and considerable global vaccine inequity, the WHO has warned that vaccine travel restrictions have the potential to further hamper global distribution of vaccines to countries with the most need.56 Locally, an international travel passport does not address systemic barriers to vaccine access and thus has the potential to widen inequities by exclud. [...] Individuals with low income would be more unlikely to be able to pay a fine, and more likely to be imprisoned due to non-payment and as a result of systemic barriers to justice in our legal system.