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Public mistrust may undermine HPV and COVID-19 vaccines

from OncLive

Public mistrust may undermine HPV and COVID-19 vaccines OncLive It is increasingly evident that the anti-vaccination movement in the United States and worldwide is gaining strength and a larger audience. As noted in a recent highly provocative analysis of 3 billion Facebook users, investigators found that although overall there were more "followers" of pro-vaccination pages, the anti-vaccination pages were far greater in number. Further, and of perhaps greatest concern, the followers of the anti-vaccination pages appeared to have greater overlap with "undecided individuals" than the followers of the material provided by pro-vaccination groups. The investigators stated that their "theoretical framework reproduces the recent explosive growth in anti-vaccination views and predicts that these views will dominate in a decade." This is indeed a stunningly scary conclusion. READ MORE

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