{"id":3772,"date":"2021-02-08T20:18:54","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T04:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=3772"},"modified":"2021-02-22T21:57:33","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T05:57:33","slug":"measuring-the-impact-of-covid-19-vaccine-misinformation-on-vaccination-intent-in-the-uk-and-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/08\/measuring-the-impact-of-covid-19-vaccine-misinformation-on-vaccination-intent-in-the-uk-and-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Measuring the Impact of COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation on Vaccination Intent in the UK and USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A randomized controlled trial exposing participants to either misinformation or factual information about COVID-19 vaccines found that among people who at baseline stated they would definitely accept the vaccine, exposure to misinformation led to a 6.2 percentage point reduction in vaccine intent among participants in the UK and a 6.4 percentage point reduction among US participants. Before treatment allocation, as of September 2020, 54.1% of UK respondents and 42.5% of US respondents reported that they would \u2018definitely\u2019 accept a COVID-19 vaccine to protect themselves. Exposure to misinformation also differently impacted intent to vaccinate according to different socioeconomic factors.<\/p>\n<p><i>Loomba et al. (Feb 5, 2021). Measuring the Impact of COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation on Vaccination Intent in the UK and USA. Nature Human Behaviour. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41562-021-01056-1\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41562-021-01056-1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A randomized controlled trial exposing participants to either misinformation or factual information about COVID-19 vaccines found that among people who at baseline stated they would definitely accept the vaccine, exposure to misinformation led to a 6.2 percentage point reduction in vaccine intent among participants in the UK and a 6.4 percentage point reduction among US&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/02\/08\/measuring-the-impact-of-covid-19-vaccine-misinformation-on-vaccination-intent-in-the-uk-and-usa\/\">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-3772","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\/3772","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=3772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3773,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3772\/revisions\/3773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3772"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=3772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}