Food companies and their misleading labels

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Food is for nutrition and to provide the body with energy and vital nutrients. Names of foods help us to know what the likely ingredients might be in it. But often, we notice that food names are misleading. They can fool a person into buying only to realize that it did not meet their expectations and imagination. For instance, take the example of samosa. An ideal samosa is refined wheat flour (maida) wrap with mashed potatoes and boiled peas inside. And when we say paneer samosa (cottage cheese stuffed fried dumplings), the picture that comes to our mind is of a wrap of refined wheat flour dough with paneer inside. But to your disappointment, you will find that these samosas are nothing but the normal samosas with mashed potatoes with or without boiled peas and just 1 small piece of cottage cheese at one corner!!! If we talk about rusks, most of these are made of refined wheat flour or maida which is not healthy. Maida is stripped of all the vital nutrients such as fiber, vitamins,
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More Americans are likely to not take the covid-19 vaccine, a new study published in JAMA states!

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 Majority of the scientists worldwide agree that covid-19 vaccination is the way out of the pandemic. Two covid-19 vaccines have been approved by the US FDA in an emergency. The vaccines have rolled out for mass public use but as time is going by, some side-effects are coming forth. An anti-vaxx movement is also ongoing and this has led to a decline in the number of Americans who want to go for the vaccine for self, family, and society protection!!! A recent article in the Journal of the American Medical Association has revealed that doubts are rising about the vaccine in the minds of the Americans.

The findings of the new study on vaccine acceptance in the USA

There are rising cases of coronavirus and deaths due to it in the USA. The virus continues to devastate human beings and cause innumerable sufferings. Vaccines are being administered to frontline workers but more and more Americans are opting out of it. A recent article published in JAMA has shown that skepticism about the vaccine is mounting. The number of Americans who now want to take the vaccine is lesser than the number in April 2020. This is regardless of the age, gender, and race of the Americans surveyed.

Overall, Americans have less desire now to get vaccinated. But certain groups are more likely to opt-out of the administration.

COVID-19 VACCINE [Source: Money Control]


More details of the study findings

In 1-14 April 2020, 74.1% of the Americans surveyed said that they would want to have the vaccine once it is available. At that time, 550k people were infected in the USA and 22k had died due to the virus. And when the study was repeated from 25 November 2020 to 8 December 2020, only 56.2% of the Americans wished to take the vaccine. And at this time, around 14.5 million Americans were infected and 280k had died due to the virus.

Adult females were less likely to take the vaccine than males. Only 50.6% of females wanted the vaccine. Earlier, 69.55 had shown their willingness for the vaccine. And interest to take the vaccine fell from 79.1 to 62.3% in males.

Race  and age and want to take the Vaccine

In April 2020 survey, 90.9% Asian-Americans said that they would go for the vaccine. But now only 80.6% gave a nod to take the vaccine. The White Americans who wished for the vaccine in April was 77.8% and in December, this figure dropped to 58.6%. In Latin Americans, the numbers fell from 73.1% to 52.7%. And in Black Americans, it was earlier 50.7% and it fell down to 37.6% in December 2020.

COVID-19 vaccine [Source: Nature]


In April, more elderly wished to have the vaccine compared to the young. But their percentage also fell eight months later. 69.1% of people above 65 years of age wanted to have the vaccine now. But only 57% in the age group of 50-64 and 50.9% in the 18-49 age group wanted to go for vaccine administration now.

Educated people also were more likely to take the vaccine. But these figures also had shown a drop compared to the April survey. The scientists from USC, UCLA and the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health concluded:

“Educational campaigns to raise the public’s willingness to consider COVID-19 vaccination are needed,”

“Low likelihood of getting a COVID-19 vaccine among Black individuals and those with lower educational backgrounds is especially concerning because of their disproportionately higher burden from COVID-19 disease,”

 

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