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RA638 .L37 2020. Stuck: How Vaccine Rumors Start and Why They Don't Go Away (2020), published by Oxford University Press and written by the director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine 's Vaccine Confidence Project, Heidi Larson, looks at what influences attitudes to vaccination. It was largely compiled before the COVID-19 ...
The idea that vaccines were created by the pharmaceutical industry to make people sick, or to alter human DNA, has been around for a long time but has been given new life during the COVID-19 pandemic. The conspiracy theory that vaccines make people autistic can be traced back to a study published in The Lancet in February 1998.
In March 2021, 19% of US adults claimed to have been vaccinated while 50% announced plans to get vaccinated. [150] [151] A 2022 study found a link between online COVID-19 misinformation and early vaccine hesitancy and refusal. [152] Despite a strong association between vaccine hesitancy and Republican vote share at the US county and state ...
Many people thought the solution to that problem had arrived two years ago, on December 14, 2020, when Sandra Lindsay became the first person in the U.S. to get a Covid vaccine outside of a ...
Last week, the Food and Drug Administration recommended that the next COVID-19 vaccine be targeted at the XBB.1.5 subvariant. That new shot is expected to come out this fall, leading public health ...
Olavo de Carvalho, Brazilian COVID-19 vaccine critic, journalist, and conspiracy theorist, was reported by his daughter to have died of COVID-19 after testing positive. [21] When Hai Shaulian, a prominent Israeli opponent of vaccination, died from COVID-19 in September 2021, his supporters "claimed that he was murdered by government authorities ...
Misinformation on the subject of COVID-19 has been used by politicians, interest groups, and state actors in many countries for political purposes: to avoid responsibility, scapegoat other countries, and avoid criticism of their earlier decisions. Sometimes there is a financial motive as well.
June 13, 2024 at 8:37 AM. (Reuters) -Moderna said on Thursday its next-generation COVID-19 vaccine candidate showed it was not inferior in efficacy compared to its approved shot in a late-stage ...