9 Psychological Barriers That Lead to COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Refusal
The fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic is putting pressure on hospital networks, upsetting many and making vaccine refusals seem ...
Tag: Vaccine Opposition
Vaccine Hesitancy and the Anti-Vaxxer Movement
Dr. Peter Hotez weighs in on identifying innovative strategies to tackling vaccine hesitancy and the anti-science movement. This free event ...
Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS): Unverified Reports Fertile Ground for Misinformation Campaigns
Chances are you may not be not familiar with the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, or VAERS. Co-managed by the ...
CDC Awards $3 Billion in Wide-Reaching Campaign to Boost Vaccination Uptake
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has awarded funding to support local efforts to increase vaccine uptake ...
AstraZeneca Vaccine: Careless Talk Has Dented Confidence and Uptake in Europe
At the start of the year, one of the main causes of the EU’s slow rollout of COVID-19 vaccines was ...
How Roald Dahl Became a Passionate Vaccine Advocate
To Olivia, a new film on Sky Cinema, captures the year (1962) that author Roald Dahl’s daughter died of measles ...
How Do We Know the COVID Vaccine Won’t Have Long-Term Side-Effects?
As Australia’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout begins this week, many people still have questions about the safety of COVID-19 vaccines, both ...
CONVINCE USA Aims to Address Public Concerns About COVID-19 Vaccine
The City University of New York Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy (CUNY SPH) today launched CONVINCE USA, ...
COVID-19 Anti-Vaxxers Use the Same Arguments From 135 Years Ago
As we get closer to an effective vaccine for COVID-19, we should expect to see a renewed push of disinformation ...
COVID-19 Industry Rivals Plan Joint Pledge on Vaccine Safety
Several drug makers developing vaccines to counter SARS-CoV-2 plan to issue a public pledge not to seek government approval until ...
Can Pro-Vaccine Bills Save Us From Ourselves?
The frequency of vaccine-preventable disease (VPD) outbreaks is increasing in the United States. A principal factor in disease transmission has ...
Could the United States Lose Its Elimination Status for Measles in Light of Ongoing Outbreaks?
In 1978, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) targeted the elimination of measles from the U.S. by 1982. ...
Is it Time to Declare Measles a Public Health Emergency?
On April 9th, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio declared a public health emergency amid the ongoing measles outbreak in ...
Most Know Kids Can Die From Flu, Yet Many Still Haven’t Had Children Vaccinated
According to a new survey conducted online by The Harris Poll, commissioned by CareDox and Families Fighting Flu, most Americans ...
The State of the Antivaccine Movement in the United States
A social movement of public health vaccine opposition has been growing in the United States in recent years; subsequently, measles ...
Is Now the Right Time to Stamp Out Measles?
Before the measles vaccine became available in 1963, there were approximately 3 to 4 million cases, and an average of ...
Unvaccinated Adults Cost the U.S. More Than 7B Annually
Vaccine-preventable diseases among adults cost the U.S. economy $8.95 billion in 2015, and unvaccinated individuals are responsible for 80 percent, ...
State Policies Influence Vaccination, Outbreak Rates
Lax state vaccination laws contribute to lower immunization rates and increased outbreaks of preventable diseases--like whooping cough and measles--according to ...
Poll: Shifting Parental Views on Pediatric Vaccination
The University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health asked parents in May how their views ...
Germany, Italy Account for Majority of Measles Cases in EU
In the past 12 months the European Union has reported 3,809 cases of measles, according the European Centre for Disease ...
