This might be a naive take but I think that a great deal of the vaccine hesitancy will disappear in a few months after millions have safely been immunized
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Replying to @apoorva_nyc @naomirwolf
Take it from someone who's studied and followed the antivaccine movement for nearly 20 years. It is a naive take. Personally, I thought
#COVID19 would decrease vaccine hesitancy, but it's energized the antivaccine movement.4 replies 1 retweet 35 likes -
I was going to say the same as
@gorskon . Being steeped in the world of vaccines for a number of years, experiencing the powerful impact of the anti vax movement, and knowing the history of it, it's naive. The average person who already vaxxes will come around. But...1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @CheriseRohr @gorskon and
the anti vax movement will be intense. It is exactly that naivety which led us to dismiss the power of that movement 20 years ago. We can't make that mistake again
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They're already losing their minds over "forced vaccination" and "human guinea pigs." As the vaccines roll out, they will do what they always do and try to link health problems and deaths that had nothing to do with the vaccine to the vaccine.
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Replying to @gorskon @CheriseRohr and
I forgot who predicted this before I did, but look for a whole lot of "adverse events" attributed to the vaccine that are not caused by the vaccine but occur as a result of the fact that other things can happen coincidentally within a window after vaccine administration.
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Replying to @gorskon @CheriseRohr and
This is how antivaxxers blame autism on vaccines. It's how they blame SIDS on vaccines. It's how they blame unexpected sudden deaths on vaccines. They exploit the fact that coincidence is far more common than people realize, particularly with millions of people and doses.
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Replying to @gorskon @CheriseRohr and
It takes careful epidemiology to distinguish coincidental "adverse events" after a vaccine from AEs that really are correlated with the vaccine. I've written more times than I can remember about how antivaxxers assume nothing is ever a coincidence with respect to vaccines.
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Replying to @gorskon @CheriseRohr and
Ha! Thankfully
@AboutPediatrics wrote about just this phenomenon!https://vaxopedia.org/2018/08/04/vaccine-injuries-vs-coincidences/ …1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
And I discussed this very issue of coincidence versus true adverse event to a vaccine in the context of the antivax claim that vaccines cause autism.https://respectfulinsolence.com/2019/11/11/gordon-maher-antivaccine-misinformation/ …
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