Vaccine Hesitancy
123 Citations•2021•
Maya J. Goldenberg
Hegel, Marx and Vygotsky
Confidence in the importance of vaccines had the strongest univariate association with vaccine uptake and genuine knowledge voids such as long term safety data, negative stories, personal knowledge and misinformation have led to some public uncertainty.
Abstract
• For the COVID-19 vaccines, factors such as the expedited development, relative novelty, complexity in explaining the mode of action of these vaccines, genuine knowledge voids such as long term safety data, negative stories, personal knowledge and misinformation have led to some public uncertainty.(1, 3) Confidence in the importance of vaccines had the strongest univariate association with vaccine uptake.(4)