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Social media and vaccine hesitancy: new updates for the era of COVID-19 and globalized infectious diseases
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Despite major advances in vaccination over the past century, resurgence of vaccine-preventable illnesses has led the World Health Organization to identify vaccine hesitancy as a major threat to global health. Vaccine hesitancy may be fueled by health information obtained from a variety of sources, including new media such as the Internet and social media platforms. As access to technology has improved, social media has attained global penetrance. In contrast to traditional media, social media allow individuals to rapidly create and share content globally without editorial oversight. Users may self-select content streams, contributing to ideological isolation. As such, there are considerable public health concerns raised by anti-vaccination messaging on such platforms and the consequent potential for downstream vaccine hesitancy, including the compromise of public confidence in future vaccine development for novel pathogens, such as SARS-CoV-2 for the prevention of COVID-19. In this review, we discuss the current position of social media platforms in propagating vaccine hesitancy and explore next steps in how social media may be used to improve health literacy and foster public trust in vaccination.
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- Authors
- Puri, N., Coomes, E. A., Haghbayan, H., & Gunaratne, K.
- Venue
- Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2020-07-21
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- 11
- Pages
- 2586-2593
- ISSN
- 2164-5515 (ISSN-L)
- 2164-554X
- OpenAlex
- W3045045932
- Cited by
- 1,157
- References
- 74
- FWCI
- 108.56
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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