Tag: Hesitancy
Understanding vaccine hesitancy in Europe – EURACTIV.com
This week EURACTIV’s health reporter Marta Iraola talks to Emilie Karafillakis, the European research lead at the Vaccine Confidence Project at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, about vaccine confidence in Europe, about why people lack trust in vaccination and why public health campaigns are important. This is the last health podcast as from September health topics will be occasionally covered under Beyond the Byline podcast.
Vaccine Hesitancy Has Seeped Into Home Health Care
There was the home health attendant who sucked her thumb before touching household items. And the one who brought her unvaccinated 4-year-old into the apartment where Mary and her immunocompromised husband live, near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. And the one who came by after her day shift at a nursing home.
Many of the aides who circulated through Mary’s household were vaccine-hesitant or outright anti-vax; many wore their mask improperly while in the apartment, she told me. A few came in with
On One Native American Reservation, Vaccine Hesitancy Has Long Historical Roots
“Mass sterilization to most people is just an event,” Remi Bald Eagle told me