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ArticleSalud colectiva2024

Hesitation towards the COVID-19 vaccine in the United States: a digital ethnographic study.

Rosalynn Adeline Vega

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Article in Salud colectiva, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Rosalynn Adeline VegaDoctora en Antropología Médica. Profesora asociada, University of Texas Rio Grande Valle, Edinburg, EEUU.ORCID 0000-0003-4520-4114

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Following the authorization the use of COVID-19 vaccines in babies age six months through children four years old in the United States, some individuals (parents, pediatricians, and communicators) framed COVID-19 vaccination as an issue of access, while many others expressed hesitancy and some resisted recommendations from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In this context, this study aimed to explore: 1) divergent reactions to the authorization of COVID-19 vaccine use in children aged six months to four years; and 2) opposing logics underlying attitudes towards pro-vaccination, anti-vaccination, and vaccine hesitancy regarding COVID-19 vaccines. To achieve this, a digital ethnography was conducted, involving monitoring of 5,700 reactions to a series of eight infographics published on social media by the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and participant observation in an online focus group over a one-year period, from December 2021 to December 2022, consisting of 18 mothers. The findings suggest that healthcare professionals should consider different notions of "risk" when interacting with patients, especially those who are hesitant to vaccinate.

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Anthropology, CulturalCOVID-19 VaccinesVaccination HesitancyAdultChild, PreschoolCOVID-19FemaleFocus GroupsHumansInfantMaleUnited StatesVaccinationCOVID-19 VaccinesChildCOVID-19 VaccinesParentsPediatriciansUnited States of America

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PMID38733976
PMCPMC11822896

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