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Incentivized self-vaccination for global measles eradication

Measles–we've become inured to its cruel, insidious impact as it kills over 100,000 children yearly because of suboptimal vaccination coverage. It does not have to be this way. A familiar, safe, exceptionally effective measles vaccine saves lives and permanent, global measles eradication is wit...

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Autores principales: Sievers, Benjamin L., Sievers, Robert E., Sievers, Eric L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9791812/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36578361
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jve.2022.100310
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description Measles–we've become inured to its cruel, insidious impact as it kills over 100,000 children yearly because of suboptimal vaccination coverage. It does not have to be this way. A familiar, safe, exceptionally effective measles vaccine saves lives and permanent, global measles eradication is within reach. But now we need to be clever and courageously explore new strategies to save lives. Firstly, let us enable people to vaccinate themselves, not with a needle and syringe, but with a quick inhaled puff of dry powder vaccine. Secondly, let us provide micro-payments using digital currency to incentivize those who vaccinate themselves. Thirdly, let us leverage learnings from how our social networks guide our behaviors to further encourage self-vaccination. Fourthly, let us inspire friendly regional competition among communities vying for the highest proportion of citizens who show measles neutralizing antibodies in spot saliva samples. With global cooperation and relentless determination, we eradicated smallpox. Next up? Measles.
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spelling pubmed-97918122022-12-27 Incentivized self-vaccination for global measles eradication Sievers, Benjamin L. Sievers, Robert E. Sievers, Eric L. J Virus Erad Letters to the Editor Measles–we've become inured to its cruel, insidious impact as it kills over 100,000 children yearly because of suboptimal vaccination coverage. It does not have to be this way. A familiar, safe, exceptionally effective measles vaccine saves lives and permanent, global measles eradication is within reach. But now we need to be clever and courageously explore new strategies to save lives. Firstly, let us enable people to vaccinate themselves, not with a needle and syringe, but with a quick inhaled puff of dry powder vaccine. Secondly, let us provide micro-payments using digital currency to incentivize those who vaccinate themselves. Thirdly, let us leverage learnings from how our social networks guide our behaviors to further encourage self-vaccination. Fourthly, let us inspire friendly regional competition among communities vying for the highest proportion of citizens who show measles neutralizing antibodies in spot saliva samples. With global cooperation and relentless determination, we eradicated smallpox. Next up? Measles. Elsevier 2022-12-15 /pmc/articles/PMC9791812/ /pubmed/36578361 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jve.2022.100310 Text en © 2022 The Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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