Social media and vaccine hesitancy: new updates for the era of COVID-19 and globalized infectious diseases

• Published in: Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics Vol. 16; no. 11; pp. 2586 - 2593
• Main Authors: Puri, Neha, Coomes, Eric A., Haghbayan, Hourmazd, Gunaratne, Keith
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Taylor & Francis 01.11.2020; Taylor & Francis Group
• Subjects: anti-vaccine movement; COVID-19; COVID-19 - prevention & control; COVID-19 - psychology; Facebook; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; Humans; Information Dissemination - methods; medicine and media; Primary Prevention - methods; Propaganda; SARS-CoV-2; Social Media; Twitter; vaccination; Vaccination - psychology; Vaccination Refusal - psychology; Vaccination Refusal - statistics & numerical data; Vaccine hesitancy; Vaccine-Preventable Diseases - epidemiology; COVID-19; medicine and media; Vaccine hesitancy; anti-vaccine movement; Twitter; Facebook; social media; vaccination

Despite major advances in vaccination over the past century, resurgence of vaccine-preventable illnesses has led the World Health Organization to identify vaccine hesitancy as a major threat to global health. Vaccine hesitancy may be fueled by health information obtained from a variety of sources, i...