Tag: anti-vaxxers
What’s not being said about why African Americans need to take...
Debra Furr-Holden, Michigan State University
Dr. Anthony Fauci and other national health leaders have said that African Americans need to take the COVID-19 vaccine to...
Coronavirus responses highlight how humans are hardwired to dismiss facts that...
Adrian Bardon, Wake Forest University
Bemoaning uneven individual and state compliance with public health recommendations, top U.S. COVID-19 adviser Anthony Fauci recently blamed the country’s...
Conspiracy theories and fear of needles contribute to vaccine hesitancy for...
Timothy Callaghan, Texas A&M University and Matt Motta, Oklahoma State University
Over 1,160 cases of measles have been confirmed in the U.S. in 2019....
3 moral reasons why parents need to get their children vaccinated...
Joel Michael Reynolds, University of Massachusetts Lowell
The U.S. hit a terrible and entirely preventable milestone this week: Measles cases are at a 25-year high....
Anti-vaxxers appear to be losing ground in the online vaccine debate
Filippo Menczer, Indiana University and Pik-Mai Hui, Indiana University
As measles outbreaks spread across the U.S., our new look at how information about vaccine safety...
Measles: Why it’s so deadly, and why vaccination is so vital
Paul Duprex, University of Pittsburgh
On the darkest day of 2018, the winter solstice, we at the Center for Vaccine Research at the University of...
Countering misinformation about flu vaccine is harder than it seems
Matthew Motta, University of Pennsylvania; Dominik Stecula, University of Pennsylvania, and Kathryn Haglin, University of Pennsylvania
Many Americans hold beliefs about the flu vaccine that...