Sara Cooper and colleagues argue that a better understanding of the complex sociopolitical drivers of distrust in vaccination will increase the potential of social media to rebuild vaccine confidence
Vaccination experts have become increasingly alarmed about the continued waning of public confidence in vaccines.1 Social media are considered to be major contributors to this decline, facilitating the rapid and widespread sharing of misinformation, enabling vaccine anxieties and rumours to travel rapidly around the world.23 Social media are also seen to have enabled vocal anti-vaccination groups to self-organise and communicate well beyond their local areas.45 The covid-19 pandemic has only magnified these concerns,6 as Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization put it, “We’re not just fighting a pandemic; we’re fighting an infodemic.”7
This dominant narrative on mistrust in vaccines assumes that it is primarily the result of a lack of informa
Artificial intelligence has potential to counter vaccine hesitancy while building trust in vaccines, but it must be deployed ethically and responsibly, argue Heidi Larson and Leesa Lin
Given the sluggish pace of traditional scientific approaches, artificial intelligence (AI), particularly generative AI, has emerged as a significant opportunity to tackle complex health challenges, including those in public health.1 Against this backdrop, interest has focused on whether AI has a role in bolstering public trust in vaccines and helping to minimise vaccine hesitancy, which the World Health Organization named as one of the top 10 global health threats.2
Vaccine hesitancy is a state of indecision before accepting or refusing a vaccination.3 It is a dynamic and context specific challenge that varies across time, place, and vaccine type. It is influenced by a range of factors, including sociocultural and political dynamics, as well as individual and group psychology. Its multifaceted and tem
The state Attorney General’s Office is sticking with plans to appear Friday in Mendocino County Superior Court to officially oppose removal of District Attorney David Eyster from his attempt to prosecute the county’s suspended auditor for misappropriation of county funds. In an update, however, a justice department spokeswoman acknowledged awareness of a mushrooming local controversary over Eyster’s action against Auditor Chamise Cubbison, and mounting criticism that the DA is displaying a pattern of conflicts of interests with Cubbison and past county auditors, as he did with some law enforcement personnel in a string of local police misconduct cases that provoked […]
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