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Mashup Score: 14The Prevalence, Features, Influencing Factors, and Solutions for COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation: Systematic Review - 1 year(s) ago
Background: During the COVID-19 pandemic, infodemic spread even more rapidly than the pandemic itself. The COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy has been prevalent worldwide and hindered pandemic exiting strategies. Misinformation around COVID-19 vaccines is a vital contributor to vaccine hesitancy. However, no evidence systematically summarized COVID-19 vaccine misinformation. Objective: This review aims…
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Mashup Score: 7We need your help to ensure the GMC delivers on its main obligation - to protect the public. - 1 year(s) ago
A group of doctors working with Good Law Practice, the not-for-profit law firm set up by Good Law Project, is asking the GMC to investigate doctors who deliberately share anti-vax misinformation on social media. Please support this case if you can.
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Fundraiser here. See also my pinned tweet. https://t.co/i23bK5e66w
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Mashup Score: 6Comparing the clinical efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines: a systematic review and network meta-analysis - Scientific Reports - 1 year(s) ago
New Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines are available to prevent the ongoing severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic. We compared the efficacy of new COVID-19 vaccines to prevent symptomatic and severe disease in the adult population and to prevent symptomatic COVID-19 among the elderly. Leading medical databases were searched until August 30, 2021….
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Vaccines against covid-19 greatly improve survival and reduce (though they do not eliminate) the risk of long-term complications like long covid and the risk of transmitting the disease to others. [there is much evidence here – example paper linked] https://t.co/SMT4LZPD9h 2/
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Mashup Score: 5
COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the UK: the Oxford coronavirus explanations, attitudes, and narratives survey (Oceans) II – Volume 52 Issue 14
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Vaccine hesitancy is common. In one study, 28% of people were either strongly opposed to, or very unsure about, covid vaccination. A major determinant of hesitancy was “excessive mistrust”, including “conspiracy beliefs” and “negative views of doctors”. https://t.co/zAWrZ4fdyQ 4/
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Mashup Score: 1Potential factors influencing COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and hesitancy: A systematic review - 1 year(s) ago
Background and aims Although vaccines are considered the most effective and fundamental therapeutic tools for consistently preventing the COVID-19 disease, worldwide vaccine hesitancy has become a widespread public health issue for successful immunization. The aim of this review was to identify an up-to-date and concise assessment of potential factors influencing COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and…
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A 2022 systematic review of the underlying causes of vaccine hesitancy around the world identified inter-related influences including “safety [concerns]”, “conspiracy beliefs”, “trust”, “fear and anxiety” and “social influence”. https://t.co/0Kj3mXqFO5 5/
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Mashup Score: 1
While conspiracy theories about COVID-19 are proliferating, their impact on health-related responses during the present pandemic is not yet fully unde…
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Another systematic review showed that while most people’s vaccine decisions aren't influenced by conspiracy theories, those theories have a significant influence at population level, lowering the overall vaccination rate and jeopardising public health. https://t.co/7aYggR54Kw 6/
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Mashup Score: 1Social media behavior is associated with vaccine hesitancy - 1 year(s) ago
Abstract. Understanding how vaccine hesitancy relates to online behavior is crucial for addressing current and future disease outbreaks. We combined survey data
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Social media has a huge effect on vaccine hesitancy. Here’s one of many studies which have shown that the development of vaccine hesitancy was linked to “following, sharing, and interacting with low-quality information online”. https://t.co/FUH2owIhVF 7/
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Mashup Score: 3COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and acceptance: a comprehensive scoping review of global literature - 1 year(s) ago
As countries continue the third year of the pandemic, we believe that there has been unfair attention to COVID-19 vaccine efficacy and safety, while tacitly ignoring serious challenges with vaccine uptake, without which vaccination may not be effective …
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Another wide-ranging review found that vaccine hesitancy was associated with negative risk perceptions, low trust in health care systems, solidarity with others sharing the same views, misinformation, concerns about side effects and political ideology. https://t.co/s8xu34vefL 8/
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Mashup Score: 3Project MUSE - Conspiracy, Complicity, Critique - 1 year(s) ago
The coronavirus pandemic and the storming of the Capitol have created a perfect storm of conspiracism, especially visible on social media. Many commentators have returned to Richard Hofstadter’s analysis of the “paranoid style in American politics” to make sense of the surge of conspiracy-minded populism and the spread of disinformation. Conspiracism is usually framed as beyond the pale of…
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Anti-vax conspiracy theories in USA are strongly linked to the anti-intellectualist, anti-authoritarian far-right, and aligned with right-wing news channels and organised political protest (including the January 6th insurrection). https://t.co/dq1tg2xMJc 9/
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Mashup Score: 4Links between conspiracy beliefs, vaccine knowledge, and trust: Anti-vaccine behavior of Serbian adults - 1 year(s) ago
Immunization is a critical tool in the fight against infectious disease epidemics. Understanding hesitancy towards immunization is even more important…
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People who join anti-vax movements are less educated, more likely to mistrust authority and less likely to believe in scientific facts or value scientific institutions, and more likely to hold libertarian views than those who don’t. https://t.co/GY2Nxs2vCL 10/
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Many factors influence the spread of vaccine misinformation on social media. One is its source. Whilst few studies have looked explicitly at this question, there is some evidence that *information from a health professional spreads faster and farther*. https://t.co/wDWTXGDMPk 13/