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ReviewHuman vaccines & immunotherapeutics2020

Social media and vaccine hesitancy: new updates for the era of COVID-19 and globalized infectious diseases.

Neha Puri, Eric A Coomes, Hourmazd Haghbayan, Keith Gunaratne

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Review in Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 553 papers, 8 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Neha PuriDepartment of Medicine, University of Toronto , Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Eric A CoomesDivision of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto , Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Hourmazd HaghbayanDivision of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, London Health Sciences Centre, Western University , London, Ontario, Canada.
Keith GunaratneDepartment of Medicine, University of Toronto , Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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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Social MediaCOVID-19Health Knowledge, Attitudes, PracticeHumansInformation DisseminationPrimary PreventionPropagandaSARS-CoV-2VaccinationVaccination RefusalVaccine-Preventable Diseasesanti-vaccine movementCOVID-19Facebookmedicine and mediasocial mediaTwittervaccinationVaccine hesitancy

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PMID32693678
PMCPMC7733887

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