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The document discusses how nurses can fight viruses in communities outside of hospitals. It notes that while the polio vaccine has eradicated polio in most areas, some pockets of Asia still experience outbreaks due to religious objections. However, healthcare workers form relationships with parents and leaders to persuade them to accept vaccines. The document concludes by inviting the reader to continue learning how nurses can engage communities and leaders to support pandemic response efforts and save lives outside of hospitals.

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The document discusses how nurses can fight viruses in communities outside of hospitals. It notes that while the polio vaccine has eradicated polio in most areas, some pockets of Asia still experience outbreaks due to religious objections. However, healthcare workers form relationships with parents and leaders to persuade them to accept vaccines. The document concludes by inviting the reader to continue learning how nurses can engage communities and leaders to support pandemic response efforts and save lives outside of hospitals.

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Closing message

When we consider pandemics, the coronavirus is not


the only virus that has reached global proportions.
During the 1940s and '50s, the polio virus resulted in
half a million deaths every year with millions left
disabled. Polio has now been eradicated across the
world with widespread use of the polio vaccine.

But in certain pockets of Asia, it still thrives due to


extreme religious biases against vaccines. Yet, health
care workers here form close bonds with parents and
community leaders, persuading them to accept the polio
vaccine. They thus remain an effective defence in these
communities against the virus.

In the past two weeks, you have learned how, as a


nurse, you can use data and be a leader to fight a virus.
But no Florence Nightingale or Sherry Chen can fight a
virus alone, not without the community.

So how, as a nurse, do you take the fight from the


hospital beds out into the community? And how do you
evoke the support of the community and its leaders in
the midst of a pandemic? We will soon be returning
with a new round of this course with more weeks of
content information that may help save lives in your
community. So, I hope you can join us to learn more
about nursing in a pandemic.

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