Causes of COVID Vaccine Hesitancy
COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy is further exacerbated by waves of misinformation promulgated on social media.
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Read more: Why Do Differences in Clinical Trial Design Make It Hard to Compare COVID-19 Vaccines? Why Do Differences in Clinical Trial Design Make It Hard to Compare COVID-19 Vaccines?
Because of differences in how they were tested in clinical trials, it is difficult to make apples-to-apples comparisons for COVID-19 vaccines.
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Read more: Should Smokers be Prioritized for COVID Vaccine? Should Smokers be Prioritized for COVID Vaccine?
Should smoking be among the pre-existing health risks that qualify people for priority access to the COVID-19 vaccine?
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Read more: COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation and the Anti-Vaccine Movement COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation and the Anti-Vaccine Movement
The anti-vaccine movement is aggressively working to promote misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines.
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Read more: What to Know About the COVID-19 Vaccine Dosing Debate What to Know About the COVID-19 Vaccine Dosing Debate
Faced with limited COVID-19 vaccine doses and the ever-mounting toll of the pandemic, a new debate has emerged as to the best strategy for allocation.
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Read more: Congress Should Enact No-Fault Compensation for COVID-19 Vaccine Injuries Congress Should Enact No-Fault Compensation for COVID-19 Vaccine Injuries
If COVID-19 vaccines lead to any serious harms, society should compensate those victims generously and quickly.
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Read more: What You Should Know About the COVID-19 Vaccine What You Should Know About the COVID-19 Vaccine
Carmel Shachar, executive director of the Petrie-Flom Center, talks about the COVID-19 vaccine and who is likely to get it first.
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Read more: From “A Spoonful of Sugar” to Operation Warp Speed: COVID-19 Vaccines and Their Metaphors From “A Spoonful of Sugar” to Operation Warp Speed: COVID-19 Vaccines and Their Metaphors
We must remain cognizant of the many ways metaphors may distort, divide, or misrepresent important details.
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Read more: Authorize Emergency Vaccines for COVID-19, but Do It Well Authorize Emergency Vaccines for COVID-19, but Do It Well
We can simultaneously get COVID vaccines to those most at risk while minimizing harm to our ability to fully evaluate their safety and efficacy.
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Read more: Why the Government Shouldn’t Pay People to Get Vaccinated Against COVID-19 Why the Government Shouldn’t Pay People to Get Vaccinated Against COVID-19
Paying for vaccination is dubious public health policy likely to backfire in terms of (re)building public trust in vaccines.
