How cultural, religious myths on social media delayed COVID-19 vaccine uptake in African communities

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The Job of frontline workers became tougher due to misinformation on racial, cultural, religious grounds. Source: Getty images/Tim Robberts

As the pandemic spread to Australia so did the misinformation and conspiracy theories with social media becoming a source of information for many in the African community. And for some the line between fake from facts were blurred.


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