Antivaccine Movement and COVID-19 Negationism: A Content Analysis of Spanish-Written Messages on Twitter

Herrera-Peco, Iván; Jiménez-Gómez, Beatriz; Magdalena, Carlos Santiago Romero; Deudero, Juan J. P.; García‐Puente, María; Gracia, Elvira Benítez de; Ruíz-Núñez, Carlos

doi:10.3390/vaccines9060656

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“…During the pandemic, it has resulted in a fragmented response that has hampered pandemic containment strategies. Public health measures adopted to stop the spread of the virus have been paralleled by the spread of various conspiracy theories (European Commission, 2020 ) that have not only encouraged a general distrust of healthcare systems but have also led to a robust anti‐vaccine movement and in some instances to violent demonstrations, all of which have hampered efforts to achieve global immunization (Herrera‐Peco et al, 2021 ).…”

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A large cross‐sectional survey of COVID‐19 vaccination willingness amongst healthcare students and professionals: Reveals generational patterns

Tomietto

Simonetti

Comparcini

et al. 2022

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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Aims To determine coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) vaccination hesitancy in healthcare professionals and healthcare students in Italy across four generations (baby boomers, generations X, Y and Z). Design A cross‐sectional descriptive study was performed through an online survey conducted from May to June 2021. The STROBE guidelines were adopted for reporting. Methods Data were collected by initially sending a survey link to a convenience sample of healthcare professionals and students, which was followed by snowball sampling. The VAX scale was validated and adopted. An ANOVA was performed to detect differences in vaccine‐hesitancy beliefs between the four generational groups. Results The survey was completed by 1226 healthcare professionals and students. Worries about unforeseen future effects accounted for the higher vaccination hesitancy factor across generations. More positive attitudes towards COVID‐19 vaccination were expressed by members of generation Z than by members of generation Y and baby boomers. Members of generation X had the highest vaccination hesitancy scores in the overall scale. Conclusion The results suggest that public health campaigns should take into account the generational differences in COVID‐19 vaccination hesitancy to achieve higher levels of vaccine acceptance, including amongst healthcare professionals and students. Impact Vaccination is the most effective strategy to tackle the COVID‐19 pandemic. The advice of health professionals strongly influences vaccination willingness in the general population. A consideration of the generational patterns in the COVID‐19 vaccination hesitancy of healthcare workers and students may increase vaccination uptake in these populations, which in turn may lead to greater public acceptance of the vaccine.

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A large cross‐sectional survey of COVID‐19 vaccination willingness amongst healthcare students and professionals: Reveals generational patterns

Tomietto

Simonetti

Comparcini

et al. 2022

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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“…More recently, a collective has started using Twitter to attack Covid vaccines (Herrera-Peco et al, 2021 ; Muric et al, 2021 ). Having studied the contents of COVID-related posts on Twitter, the authors of Germani and Biller-Andorno ( 2021 ) discovered that members of the anti-vaccination group write posts with a strong emotional tone.…”

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Negative Perception of the COVID-19 Pandemic Is Dropping: Evidence From Twitter Posts

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The COVID-19 pandemic hit hard society, strongly affecting the emotions of the people and wellbeing. It is difficult to measure how the pandemic has affected the sentiment of the people, not to mention how people responded to the dramatic events that took place during the pandemic. This study contributes to this discussion by showing that the negative perception of the people of the COVID-19 pandemic is dropping. By negative perception, we mean the number of negative words the users of Twitter, a social media platform, employ in their online posts. Seen as aggregate, Twitter users are using less and less negative words as the pandemic evolves. The conclusion that the negative perception is dropping comes from a careful analysis we made in the contents of the COVID-19 Twitter chatter dataset, a comprehensive database accounting for more than 1 billion posts generated during the pandemic. We explore why the negativity of the people decreases, making connections with psychological traits such as psychophysical numbing, reappraisal, suppression, and resilience. In particular, we show that the negative perception decreased intensively when the vaccination campaign started in the USA, Canada, and the UK and has remained to decrease steadily since then. This finding led us to conclude that vaccination plays a key role in dropping the negativity of the people, thus promoting their psychological wellbeing.

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“…By the end of August 2021, 5.29 billion doses of vaccine had been given globally, 67.22 doses per 100 people. [12][13][14][15][16][17][18] China has received a total of 2.06 billion doses, 142.84 doses per 100 people. 1 The global distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine is not balanced.…”

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China’s COVID-19 Vaccination Strategy and Its Impact on the Global Pandemic

Meng¹,

Shan²,

Zhang³

2021

RMHP

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Antivaccine Movement and COVID-19 Negationism: A Content Analysis of Spanish-Written Messages on Twitter

Cited by 58 publications

References 47 publications

A large cross‐sectional survey of COVID‐19 vaccination willingness amongst healthcare students and professionals: Reveals generational patterns

A large cross‐sectional survey of COVID‐19 vaccination willingness amongst healthcare students and professionals: Reveals generational patterns

Negative Perception of the COVID-19 Pandemic Is Dropping: Evidence From Twitter Posts

China’s COVID-19 Vaccination Strategy and Its Impact on the Global Pandemic

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