The Other Pandemic: Erosion of public trust, Misinformation and Vaccine hesitancy
7 min readAug 17, 2021
Vaccination and opposition to it is nothing new.
Variolation, infecting someone with material from smallpox pustules to create natural immunity, was practiced in Asia and Africa in the 16th century. Cotton Mather, a Christian minister in Boston promoted the practice in the 1700’s having learnt the technique from his African…