A taxonomy of anti-vaccination arguments from a systematic literature review and text modelling

A Fasce, P Schmid, DL Holford, L Bates… - Nature human …, 2023 - nature.com
The proliferation of anti-vaccination arguments is a threat to the success of many
immunization programmes. Effective rebuttal of contrarian arguments requires an approach …

Misinformation of COVID-19 vaccines and vaccine hesitancy

SK Lee, J Sun, S Jang, S Connelly - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
The current study examined various types of misinformation related to the COVID-19
vaccines and their relationships to vaccine hesitancy and refusal. Study 1 asked a sample of …

The efficacy of Facebook's vaccine misinformation policies and architecture during the COVID-19 pandemic

DA Broniatowski, JR Simons, J Gu, AM Jamison… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Online misinformation promotes distrust in science, undermines public health, and may drive
civil unrest. During the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, Facebook—the world's largest …

Public attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccination: The role of vaccine attributes, incentives, and misinformation

S Kreps, N Dasgupta, JS Brownstein, Y Hswen… - npj Vaccines, 2021 - nature.com
While efficacious vaccines have been developed to inoculate against severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2; also known as COVID-19), public …

Prevention is political: political party affiliation predicts perceived risk and prevention behaviors for COVID-19

MT Kiviniemi, H Orom, JL Hay, EA Waters - BMC public health, 2022 - Springer
Background Many US politicians have provided mixed messages about the risks posed by
SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 and whether and to what extent prevention practices should be put …

Viruses, vaccines, and COVID-19: Explaining and improving risky decision-making

VF Reyna, DA Broniatowski, SM Edelson - Journal of Applied Research in …, 2021 - Elsevier
Risky decision-making lies at the center of the COVID-19 pandemic and will determine
future viral outbreaks. Therefore, a critical evaluation of major explanations of such decision …

Racial/ethnic and nativity disparities in US Covid-19 vaccination hesitancy during vaccine rollout and factors that explain them

ML Frisco, J Van Hook, KJA Thomas - Social Science & Medicine, 2022 - Elsevier
While research has begun to investigate disparities in Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy between
White, Black and Hispanic adults, no nationally representative studies to date have …

Individual empowerment, institutional confidence, and vaccination rates in cross-National Perspective, 1995 to 2018

WM Cole, E Schofer, K Velasco - American Sociological …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
In the past decade, before the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, rates of childhood
vaccination against diseases such as measles, diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus declined …

“First do no harm”: effective communication about COVID-19 vaccines

DA Broniatowski, M Dredze… - American Journal of …, 2021 - ajph.aphapublications.org
With effective COVID-19 vaccines in hand, we must now address the spread of information
on social media that might encourage vaccine hesitancy. Although misinformation comes in …

Moral expressions, sources, and frames: Examining COVID-19 vaccination posts by Facebook public pages

W Zhang, R Wang, H Liu - Computers in Human Behavior, 2023 - Elsevier
Taking advantage of 3 million English-language posts by Facebook public pages, this study
answers the following questions: How did the amount of COVID-19 vaccine-related …