A survey of mostly African American adults living in and around one of Georgia's largest cities found that COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy was greatest among those age 18 to 29, investigators say.
Aug 23, 2021
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging health care providers to be "on alert" for patients with symptoms of measles—a virus declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2000—after nearly two dozen cases have been ...
Jan 31, 2024
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The term "vaccine hesitancy" was in wide use years before the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic. The term focuses on individual-level attitudes toward vaccines. Throughout the pandemic, much popular ...
Dec 12, 2022
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Following on full U.S. regulatory approval of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, the Pentagon announced on Monday that all military personnel—including 1.3 million active-duty troops—must get their shots.
Aug 23, 2021
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Public health officials are focusing on the 30% of the eligible population that remains unvaccinated against COVID-19 as of the end of October 2021, and that requires figuring out where those people are and why they are unvaccinated.
Nov 8, 2021
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For months, President Joe Biden has laid out goal after goal for taming the coronavirus pandemic and then exceeded his own benchmarks. Now, though, the U.S. is unlikely to meet his target to have 70% of Americans at least ...
Jun 8, 2021
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People's willingness to use a Zika vaccine when it's available will be influenced by how they weigh the risks associated with the disease and the vaccine, but also by their misconceptions about other vaccines, a new study ...
Mar 15, 2018
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"Your body's full of veins, isn't it? Well, you've got to fill them up with something, haven't you?" That's the mystery of blood, as explained by British comedian Tony Hancock in one of the UK's best-known comedy episodes, ...
Jun 16, 2021
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A social media campaign launched in 2022 helped encourage some Nigerians to roll up their sleeves for a COVID vaccine, according to a new study published Sept. 15. The paper, "Outcomes of a social media campaign to promote ...
Sep 18, 2023
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Results are promising for a new approach to reducing "vaccine hesitancy," which happens when parents' concerns about vaccine safety lead them to delay or skip their children's immunizations, according to a Kaiser Permanente ...
Apr 11, 2017
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