On April 18-22, 2022 the annual World Vaccine Congress in Washington DC was held with “record attendance with just under 1900 participants”, a place where academia, pharma and public health intersect!
The World Vaccine Congress is the largest, most established meeting dedicated to vaccines that covers the whole vaccine value chain. [3]
Hatice Beton, Executive Director of the G20 & G7 Health and Development Partnership who leads the policy, advocacy and communications work of over 25 leading global health organisations, discussed solutions to “tackle lowering immunization rates and vaccine hesitancy globally”, which has been labelled a threat to the next pandemic with Disease X. [1, 2]
To be allowed entry to the first face-to-face congress in 2 years all delegates were required to provide “evidence of either full vaccination or a negative PCR or antigen test from within the past 72 hours” for COVID-19, meaning you could be “vaccine hesitant” and still attend the pro-vaccine conference.
Bill Gates, who is rich (and gets richer through investing in vaccines), believes, as is summarised by Today host (@2min) that “disease is inevitable but pandemics are not, and if you spend billions now you save trillions later”, if only they could get eliminate “vaccine hesitancy”. [4]