Unvaccinated Elderly Most at Risk, Says Chief Infectologist

  • 24 Sep 2021 6:41 AM
  • Hungary Matters
Unvaccinated Elderly Most at Risk, Says Chief Infectologist
Elderly people who have not accepted the coronavirus vaccine make up the majority of those hospitalised in the fourth wave of the pandemic in Hungary, the head infectologist of Budapest’s South Pest Central Hospital has said.

“Half of those without vaccines read and spread misconceptions about the vaccine being harmful,” and are impossible to convince otherwise, János Szlávik told on public news channel M1.


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