• Pakistan launched its second nationwide anti-polio campaign of the year, aiming to inoculate 44 million children under 5 years old, as the country nears eradicating the disease.
  • Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul-Haq-Kakar urged parents to cooperate with the 350,000 health workers going door-to-door to administer vaccine drops. This campaign follows previous attacks on vaccine providers and police assigned to protect them.
  • Pakistan and Afghanistan are the only two countries where polio continues to threaten children, and the recent cases reported this year were from the border region with Afghanistan.

Comparison:

  • “Left leaning sources” emphasize Pakistan’s efforts and previous successes against polio.
  • “Center leaning sources” note the campaign’s security measures and parental collaboration.
  • “Right leaning sources” point out past attacks on vaccine providers.

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  • SeaJ@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Same. And considering vaccine hesitancy due to how we caught bin Laden, I was actually expecting that. The wording is garbage. You call it a polio vaccine program, not an anti-polio vaccine program.