Generalized vaccine hesitancy a factor in most decisions to not get COVID-19 vaccines --study

Vaccine hesitancy behind most decisions to not get COVID-19 vaccines The level of hesitancy for the COVID-19 vaccine was much higher than for other routinely given vaccines. CIDRAP

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Vaccine hesitancy, which began to grow steadily in the US during the early 2000s with false claims that common childhood vaccines caused autism, soared again during the pandemic, as employee vaccine mandates became political footballs.

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