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Australia s success at suppressing the COVID-19 pandemic could be behind a decline in people s willingness to be vaccinated against the virus, according to a university researcher.
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Researchers from CQUniversity found that people s willingness to vaccinate against COVID-19 decreased as the pandemic progressed last year
Australia s success at managing and suppressing COVID-19 could be behind it, says one author
The study, published in the peer-reviewed International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, is based on two surveys conducted in April and August 2020
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