COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy

Dubé, Ève; MacDonald, Noni E.

doi:10.1038/s41581-022-00571-2

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“…Currently, only 15% of the population living in low-income countries is vaccinated, against an average of 70/80% in high-income countries (42). These data reflect the accessibility to vaccination: in high-income countries, in fact, although the availability of COVID-19 vaccines, ignorance, miscommunication, and in some cases the absence of a strong central leadership that follow the scientific evidence, have caused vaccine hesitancy (43,44). On the contrary, in low-income countries there is a lack of vaccines due to several aspects such as the absence of infrastructure and technology for vaccines production and maintenance, and the problem of the suspension of patent protections (45).…”

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Is Endemicity a Solution for the COVID-19 Pandemic? The Four E's Strategy for the Public Health Leadership

Villani

Gualano

Ricciardi

2022

Front. Public Health

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Is Endemicity a Solution for the COVID-19 Pandemic? The Four E's Strategy for the Public Health Leadership

Villani

Gualano

Ricciardi

2022

Front. Public Health

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“…Considering that vaccine-related conspiracy theories and fake news prevailed in the absence of reliable information sources, future policy efforts should be aimed at reducing the spread of misinformation about COVID-19 vaccination and limiting anti-vaccine public advertising. 38 It will also be important to restore public trust in authorities, health care professionals, and the healthcare system. 39 – 42 To further build and maintain positive public perception of COVID-19 vaccines, it is important for governments and healthcare authorities to provide continuously updated, evidence-based information through popular social and traditional media sources.…”

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Understanding coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine hesitancy: Evidence from the community-driven knowledge site Quora

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Objective The present study aims to examine the threshold of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine hesitancy over time and public discourse around COVID-19 vaccination hesitancy. Methods We collected 3,952 questions and 66,820 answers regarding COVID-19 vaccination posted on the social question-and-answer website Quora between June 2020 and June 2021 and employed Word2Vec and Sentiment Analysis to analyze the data. To examine changes in the perceptions and hesitancy about the COVID-19 vaccine, we segmented the data into 25 bi-weekly sections. Results As positive sentiment about vaccination increased, the number of new vaccinations in the United States also increased until it reached a ceiling point. The vaccine hesitancy phase was identified by the decrease in positive sentiment from its highest peak. Words that occurred only when the positive answer rate peaked (e.g., safe, plan, best, able, help) helped explain factors associated with positive perceptions toward vaccines, and the words that occurred only when the negative answer rate peaked (e.g., early, variant, scientists, mutations, effectiveness) suggested factors associated with vaccine hesitancy. We also identified a period of vaccine resistance, where people who decided not to be vaccinated were unlikely to be vaccinated without further enforcement or incentive. Conclusions Findings suggest that vaccine hesitancy occurred because concerns about vaccine safety were high due to a perceived lack of scientific evidence and public trust in healthcare authorities has been seriously undermined. Considering that vaccine-related conspiracy theories and fake news prevailed in the absence of reliable information sources, restoring public trust in healthcare leaders will be critical for future vaccination efforts.

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“…The Royal Society of Canada Framework (an adapted version of Hasnan and Tan framework) discusses COVID-19 vaccine acceptance as shown in Figure 2. The four major domains of factors that influence vaccine acceptance are immunisation knowledge (highlighting the importance of vaccine related reliable information, that is, easily accessible, up-to-date, and accurate tailored for each target group), healthcare workers, people in place (in accordance with the goal of the World Health Organisation Immunisation Agenda 2030) and the health care system (highlighting the role of immunisation programmes, health legislations and policies) [26]. Each of these major domains influence each other and none of these stand alone; the intersections are highlighted in white boxes.…”

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Hesitancy for COVID-19 Vaccines and Its Implications for Routine Immunisation

Kumar¹,

Surya²

2023

COVID-19 Vaccines - Current State and Perspectives

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Vaccine hesitancy is a continuum, conditional on confidence (on vaccine or healthcare authorities), complacency, structural or psychological constraints, calculation or evaluation, vaccination convenience, and aspects pertaining to collective responsibility. The present chapter documents hesitancy to COVID-19 vaccination; and elaborates on factors that contribute to both hesitancy (barriers and concerns) and acceptance (enablers) rates, disaggregated by populations. We also discuss the multimodal nature of the COVID-19 pandemic and its vaccine hesitancy-related implications on routine immunisation. The pandemic and related movement restrictions or other mitigation measures, partial or complete suspension of vaccination clinics or fear of COVID-19, stress, anxiety, and depression may have limited parents’ access to avail routine immunisation vaccines for their children. Also, the impact of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy is not limited to pandemic vaccines but may continue to extend to routinely recommended vaccines.

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COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy

Cited by 89 publications

References 8 publications

Is Endemicity a Solution for the COVID-19 Pandemic? The Four E's Strategy for the Public Health Leadership

Is Endemicity a Solution for the COVID-19 Pandemic? The Four E's Strategy for the Public Health Leadership

Understanding coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine hesitancy: Evidence from the community-driven knowledge site Quora

Hesitancy for COVID-19 Vaccines and Its Implications for Routine Immunisation

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