Vaccine safety and social media in China

Public preference for COVID‐19 vaccines in China: A discrete choice experiment

“…Our findings confirmed that despite some Chinese pharmaceutical companies now taking a leading position in the race to develop the COVID‐19 vaccine, the long‐term vaccine crisis has had a significantly negative influence on the public's willingness to select a domestic vaccine. This is in line with the findings of previous studies that anxiety about vaccine safety reduces and even eliminates public's willingness towards taking vaccination 24,39,40 . However, we found that there appeared to be trade‐offs between attributes that participants considered to maximize the vaccines’ utility.…”

“…Two researchers independently completed the literature review. All the team members discussed the findings, and four attributes—effectiveness, 17‐20 protective duration, 17,19‐21 adverse events 22‐24 and frequency of injections 25,26 —were confirmed that potentially important for developing our DCE questionnaire. Then, on the basis of the findings from the literature review, six one‐to‐one interviews (three males and three females, aged between 28 and 62 years) and three focus group interviews with six to eight participants in each group (20 participants in total) as a sample of the Chinese general population were conducted to investigate their views and perspectives about the attributes of an 'ideal' COVID‐19 vaccine and its effectiveness at different levels.…”

Knowledge, attitude, and practice regarding infection and vaccination in patients with rheumatic diseases in China

“…Scandals related to vaccine shipping have exert tremendously negative effects on the public's beliefs. 21 There is an official website for National immunization program, Chinese CDC, involving knowledge about the vaccination. However, the information are not timely updated and there are only about one hundred thousand visitors till December, 2018.…”

Information Seeking and Processing in the Context of Vaccine Scandals

“…As one Chinese father said, “I [and my family] will not be having any more vaccination in mainland China until the government takes real and serious steps to resolve this issue” (Leng & Huang, 2018). Many Chinese parents searched and shared information on social media about getting their children vaccinated in Hong Kong to avoid substandard vaccines (Fung et al, 2016). As a result, parents who were able to travel to nearby regions or countries opted to get their children vaccinated elsewhere because they did not view domestic vaccines as safe (Paquette, 2018).…”