{"id":39413,"date":"2021-12-02T11:37:13","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T02:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/02\/the-fear-of-this-vaccine-is-real-how-papua-new-guineas-covid-strategy-went-so-wrong"},"modified":"2021-12-02T11:37:13","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T02:37:13","slug":"the-fear-of-this-vaccine-is-real-how-papua-new-guineas-covid-strategy-went-so-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39413","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The fear of this vaccine is real\u2019: how Papua New Guinea\u2019s Covid strategy went so wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Public confusion and distrust over vaccination have been fuelled by what experts say are crippling failures in authorities\u2019 response to the pandemic<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In mid-October Dr Clement Malau, a Harvard-educated public health specialist and former secretary of the Papua New Guinea health department, was alarmed to discover he had gone viral. Only he hadn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>Someone had posted a 20-minute audio clip as a \u201cspeech from Dr Clement Malau regarding the vaccine\u201d, the orator sliding between English and Tok Pisin \u2013 PNG Pidgin \u2013 to deliver an eloquent, tub-thumping rant against Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/02\/the-fear-of-this-vaccine-is-real-how-papua-new-guineas-covid-strategy-went-so-wrong\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public confusion and distrust over vaccination have been fuelled by what experts say are crippling failures in authorities\u2019 response to the pandemicSee all our coronavirus coverageIn mid-October Dr Clement Malau, a Harvard-educated public health specia&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":280,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1066,874,267,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-pacific-islands","category-papua-new-guinea","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/280"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39414,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39413\/revisions\/39414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}