{"id":1790,"date":"2020-10-26T12:15:59","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T19:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=1790"},"modified":"2020-12-21T15:41:10","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T23:41:10","slug":"social-media-and-vaccine-hesitancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/26\/social-media-and-vaccine-hesitancy\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media and Vaccine Hesitancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Communities with a greater use of social media to organize offline political actions had more public concerns about vaccine safety in a cross-national analysis of social media and vaccine hesitancy. Additionally, foreign disinformation campaigns were found to be significantly associated with declining vaccination rates. The study found that a one-point shift upward in the five-point disinformation scale was associated with a 2% drop in mean vaccination coverage and a 15% increase in tweets containing negative content about vaccines. The study findings were not specific to SARS-CoV-2 vaccines, though the authors emphasize the importance of combating disinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p><i>Wilson and Wiysonge. (Oct 2020). Social Media and Vaccine Hesitancy. BMJ Global Health.<\/i><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gh.bmj.com\/content\/bmjgh\/5\/10\/e004206.full.pdf\">https:\/\/gh.bmj.com\/content\/bmjgh\/5\/10\/e004206.full.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Communities with a greater use of social media to organize offline political actions had more public concerns about vaccine safety in a cross-national analysis of social media and vaccine hesitancy. Additionally, foreign disinformation campaigns were found to be significantly associated with declining vaccination rates. The study found that a one-point shift upward in the five-point&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/26\/social-media-and-vaccine-hesitancy\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[33],"topic":[31],"class_list":["post-1790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-vaccines","topic-vaccines-and-immunity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1791,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790\/revisions\/1791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1790"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}