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In September, data from a survey by the World Health Organization (WHO) that was coordinated in Spain by the Carlos III Health Institute indicated that only 43% of citizens would be willing to get a vaccine against COVID-19. . Three months earlier, the percentage of citizens willing to be vaccinated was 70%. Although the number of distrustful people continues to decrease - in November, according to another CIS survey, only 28% of citizens distrusted the new drugs, El País detailed -, the percentages are still alarming. This is the reason why the Government is working on a new chatbot for WhatsApp with which questions about new medications can be resolved automatically.
It will not be the first to be developed by the public administration so far in the pandemic: while the first wave hit the country, the Government also launched a tool for the popular messaging application with the purpose of being a complement to care services. telephone, which at that time were still collapsed. Spain could reach herd immunity in 2021: what will happen month by month with vaccines and when will we recover normality Now the Government has to be working on the launch of two new chatbots , tools capable Europe Cell Phone Number List of maintaining conversations with real people to automatically resolve their doubts. In the vaccination strategy that the Executive presented at the beginning of December, the need to have two similar platforms is clearly stated: one for professionals and another for citizens in general. The first of these chatbots "for WhatsApp or other applications" is intended to resolve any doubts that may arise among health workers responsible for inoculating the doses of the new drugs as they are distributed throughout the territory.
Although the vaccination campaign with Pfizer doses began at the end of December , this chatbot has not yet arrived. The second of these bots will aim to raise awareness among citizens in general, and the Government opens the door in its vaccination strategy itself to analyze what doubts will reach this automated tool in order to "assess the understanding of the materials prepared." Recovery at the end of 2022: Spain will be the last EU country to return to the pre-coronavirus GDP level Although these are purposes that the vaccination strategy already included, neither of them has translated into any real application, for the moment. It has been the newspaper El Paíswho has recalled the inclusion of these tools in said strategy, which helps the medium to wonder if this type of platform could help convince "the reluctant" to accept vaccines.