Counteracting conspiracy ideas as a measure of increasing propensity for COVID-19 vaccine uptake in Russian society

Boguslavsky, D. V.; Sharov, Konstantin S.; Шарова, Н. П.

doi:10.7189/jogh.12.03013

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“…This may be accounted for by the huge amount of paperwork that biocollection specialists ought to do in Russia now and the presence of many bureaucratic procedures that hinder them from performing scientific research and managing collections. This is in line with our previous research [72][73][74][75][76][77][78].…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 93%

Russian Biodiversity Collections: A Professional Opinion Survey

Alpeeva,

Sharova,

Sharov

et al. 2023

Animals

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Biodiversity collections are important vehicles for protecting endangered wildlife in situations of adverse anthropogenic influence. In Russia, there are currently a number of institution- and museum-based biological collections, but there are no nation-wide centres of biodiversity collections. In this paper, we report on the results of our survey of 324 bioconservation, big-data, and ecology specialists from different regions of Russia in regard to the necessity to create several large national biodiversity centres of wildlife protection. The survey revealed specific goals that have to be fulfilled during the development of these centres for the protection and restoration of endangered wildlife species. The top three problems/tasks (topics) are the following: (1) the necessity to create large national centres for different types of specimens; (2) the full sequencing and creation of different “omic” (genomic, proteomic, transcriptomic, etc.) databases; (3) full digitisation of a biodiversity collection/centre. These goals may constitute a guideline for the future of biodiversity collections in Russia that would be targeted at protecting and restoring endangered species. With the due network service level, the translation of the website into English, and permission from the regulator (Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Russian Federation), it can also become an international project.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 93%

Russian Biodiversity Collections: A Professional Opinion Survey

Alpeeva,

Sharova,

Sharov

et al. 2023

Animals

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“…There have been numerous reports that social media accounts that had previously been spreading vaccine and COVID-19 disinformation shifted their focus and started to spread Russian narrative about the invasion/war in Ukraine, however, another CEPA report shows that this time around the propaganda was not as successful, because various strategies to deter such disinformation were implemented (such as, disinformation and misinformation policy implementation throughout various social media platforms, flagging and taking down misleading information etc.) [ 28 – 33 ]. The information warfare that Russian Federation is waging in the west is not a newly discovered thing and they are engaged not only in undermining medical progress, but electoral campaigns as well [ 34 ]; For example, back in 2018 researchers published a paper that studied how Russian Twitter bots and trolls amplified vaccine hesitancy during measles outbreak and, when they did a retrospective review of those accounts, the same trolls and bots were engaged in disseminating divisive topics during 2016 elections, misinformation about 5G wireless technology, in short, they were using everything to create a discord and further polarize the society [ 34 ].…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The information warfare that Russian Federation is waging in the west is not a newly discovered thing and they are engaged not only in undermining medical progress, but electoral campaigns as well [ 34 ]; For example, back in 2018 researchers published a paper that studied how Russian Twitter bots and trolls amplified vaccine hesitancy during measles outbreak and, when they did a retrospective review of those accounts, the same trolls and bots were engaged in disseminating divisive topics during 2016 elections, misinformation about 5G wireless technology, in short, they were using everything to create a discord and further polarize the society [ 34 ]. All of the above, though, acts as a double-edged sword, since a study from Russia shows that the main reason from vaccine hesitancy are fake news, which creates fear and doubts around the vaccine [ 33 ].…”

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confidence: 99%

Correlation of geopolitics, education, democracy with COVID-19 vaccination rate

Chakhunashvili,

Kvirkvelia

et al. 2024

BMC Public Health

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Introduction Vaccine hesitancy is an ongoing problem and determining the factors that increase the vaccination rate in various countries of the world might be useful for further implementation of efficient public health policies and negating anti-vaccination campaigns. Materials and methods Human Development Index (HDI), Education Index (EI), Democracy Index (DI), COVID-19 vaccination rates, COVID-19 data were collected from public sources such as UNDP - Human Development Reports, UNESCO - Education Index, Economist Intelligence, WHO– COVID-19 Dashboard, Our World In Data, The Financial Times COVID-19 Dashboard. Statistical analysis such as Pearson correlation, and linear regression analyses were done to determine a relation between the above-mentioned indices and COVID-19 vaccination rates (1-dose, 2-dose, booster, and combined). Results HDI had the strongest positive correlation with the vaccination rates (1-dose– r (181) = 0.632, p < 0.001, 2-dose– r (181) = 0.671, p < 0.001, booster– r (181) = 0.718, p < 0.001, combined– 0.703, p < 0.001). EI (1-dose– r (177) = 0.560, p < 0.001, 2-dose– r (177) = 0.599, p < 0.001, booster– r (177) = 0.642, p < 0.001, combined– 0.626, p < 0.001), DI (1-dose– r (163) = 0.445, p < 0.001, 2-dose– r (163) = 0.479, p < 0.001, booster– r (163) = 0.534, p < 0.001, combined– 0.508, p < 0.001), as well as Geographic location (1-dose– η (Eta) = 0.610 p < 0.001, 2-dose– η (Eta) = 0.633 p < 0.001, booster– η (Eta) = 0.657, p < 0.001, combined– η (Eta) = 0.645, p < 0.001) had positive correlation with vaccination rates. Conclusion There is a strong positive correlation of COVID-19 vaccination rates with HDI and EI.

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“…Network narrative analyses have not identified any central origin source or universally accepted conspiracy theory [ 29 ]. COVID-19 related conspiracy theories are now a global phenomenon, having been identified in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia, and Europe [ [30] , [31] , [32] , [33] , [34] , [35] ]. The most common types of conspiracy theories involve beliefs of COVID-19 being malevolently designed in a laboratory, generated by fifth generation broadband cellular networks, or being a covert means to mandate microchip-containing vaccinations to the public [ 36 ].…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%