Amar Sarkar

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Amar Sarkar is a doctoral student in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, where he researches the human microbiome. Previously, he studied both Neuroscience and Evolutionary Biology at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was born in New Delhi, India, and he has been in India since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Jun 22, 2021 ∙ 25 min

The Many Forms of Vaccine Hesitancy

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to more than 176 million confirmed cases and over 3.8 million confirmed deaths. These numbers are likely dwarfed by the true rates of infection and death, which will remain unknown well into the future and will likely never be fully elucidated.[1] During this time, several countries have vied for the unhappy honour of being the worst affected by the pandemic, including Italy in early 2020, the United States through 2020 and early 2021, and most recently India in...