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Attitudes towards influenza and pneumococcal vaccines in parents of asthmatic children during the COVID‐19 pandemic

Abstract: This study aimed to determine the differences in attitudes and views towards influenza and pneumococcal vaccines in parents of children with asthma during the COVID-19 pandemic.Asthmatic children in the 6-18 age group who were admitted to the pediatric allergy clinic of our hospital between October 1, 2020 and February 31, 2021 were included in the study. The parents were given a questionnaire asking about their demographics and medical history. Their attitudes and thoughts towards these two vaccines, both before and during the pandemic, and their COVID-19 stories were questioned.A total of 78 patients diagnosed with asthma were included in this study. While the rate of influenza vaccination before the pandemic was 29.5%, the rate of those who received or wanted to receive influenza vaccine during the pandemic was 71.8% (p = 0.001). It was observed that the rate of influenza vaccination during the pandemic increased with the regular use of asthma medication, the presence of atopy, and a history of COVID-19 infection in the family/close environment. In total, 69.2% of the parents stated that their child's pneumococcal vaccination was incomplete or they were unaware of their child's vaccination status.This study demonstrated that there was an increase in the rate and willingness of parents of asthmatic children to have their children vaccinated against influenza during the COVID-19 pandemic. As for the pneumococcal vaccine, the majority of the parents did not have enough information or they were unaware of the vaccination status of their children.

Unity in plurality

Abstract: Representational plurality consists, by definition, in the mind holding two (or more) potentially incompatible representations. But this definition does not specify the mind’s structural state as it holds this plurality. Does representational plurality entail a more or less permanent fragmentation of the mind, or is cognitive cohesion still an option? An isolationist perspective conceives plurality as set of independent representations. This approach appears reasonable for treating some aspects of plurality. However, the chapter aims to elaborate a different – integrationist – perspective, where a plurality of representations is integrated in larger cognitive structures. The author suggests that at least two kinds of larger structures could bring some cohesion to the plurality. First, by acknowledging different cognitive values to the different representations, some order is created and these representations cease to be entirely independent cognitive objects. Second, more binding relationship between the two (or more) representations could consist in integrating them into an elaborate explanation, where successes and failures of each act as part of the explanation. The author suggests that such ordering and explanatory cohesion might be thought as constitutive of the nature of expertise in a pluralist context.