Addressing the COVID-19 emergency during the ongoing political and economic crisis in Fragile Lebanon: a call to action

This Letter to the Editor aims to reflect on the current challenges to increase the coverage of COVID-19 vaccination in the fragile and conflict-affected setting of Lebanon, which is currently experiencing one of the biggest economic crises globally as well as a recent surge in COVID-19 cases. Addre...

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Autores principales: Lobkowicz, Ludmila, Lahoud, Julien, Bou-Orm, Ibrahim
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8414468/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34479582
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13031-021-00403-3
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spelling pubmed-84144682021-09-03 Addressing the COVID-19 emergency during the ongoing political and economic crisis in Fragile Lebanon: a call to action Lobkowicz, Ludmila Lahoud, Julien Bou-Orm, Ibrahim Confl Health Letter to the Editor This Letter to the Editor aims to reflect on the current challenges to increase the coverage of COVID-19 vaccination in the fragile and conflict-affected setting of Lebanon, which is currently experiencing one of the biggest economic crises globally as well as a recent surge in COVID-19 cases. Addressing the supply- and demand-related factors affecting vaccination would increase COVID-19 vaccine coverage and prevent the complete collapse of an already overwhelmed Lebanese health care system. BioMed Central 2021-09-03 /pmc/articles/PMC8414468/ /pubmed/34479582 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13031-021-00403-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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