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        Populations all over the world had been waiting for a way out of COVID-19 pandemic that hit every part of the world. This pandemic has affected global health and economic causing people to lose their jobs and business regardless of its size and strength. Advanced countries started a race to discover a treatment for this disease to either prevent human from getting it or at least to reduce death rate and getting critically ill. Like any treatment, they are people who would accept taking it after knowing that it had been approved by drug authorities while others would not because of false believes or because of bad experiences. Saudi Arabia was one of the first countries which started a national campaign to vaccinate all its population regardless of their nationality and legal status for free to get to herd immunity as well as to reopen all activities social and religious by increasing awareness about the safety of the approved vaccine to increase people uptake of it.

        In an article titled “Acceptability of a COVID-19 Vaccine among the Saudi Population” published in 2021, a survey was conducted to measure how people are accepting the idea of getting the vaccine. The survey question was clear and relevant to the conducted study. Due to novelty of COVID-19, I think this study adds something new to the field especially after all protective measures taken by the authorities to prevent the spread of the disease in terms of the willingness of people to take it even though the result of the study showed low acceptance rate. An exploratory question was asked to participants asking them about will be accepting the vaccine if it were to be giving for free. The study design of cross-sectional and as an online survey was an appropriate way to first reach the targeted participants, and second to avoid direct contact using snowball sampling method this might have not been the best way, but it was appropriate during the pandemic. Participants tend to have sent the survey to other participants within their social media circle who share same interest so we can see a potential biases here which might have affected the result somehow. The study was performed according to the protocol starting from the authors all the way to figures and tables as well as the references and footnotes. The study went further with some investigations with its questions about the health status, past vaccination history, and weather or not they compulsory vaccination, so it does state a tested hypothesis. The analysis of the study was performed probably using software and more than one model for age to make sure that the results are correct as much as possible. Due to the results, conclusion emphasis on some suggestions to raise people’s awareness about the vaccination and how important they are to protect the population which would help to raise the uptake rate. Finally, as seen in the study, there is no conflict as per the authors declaration.





Work cited

-        Alfageeh, E.I.; Alshareef, N.; Angawi, K.; Alhazmi, F.; Chirwa, G.C. Acceptability of a COVID19 Vaccine among the Saudi Population. Vaccines 2021, 9, 226. https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines9030226


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