Vaccine confidence in the time of COVID-19

In the early months of the COVID-19 epidemic, some have wondered if the force of this global experience will solve the problem of vaccine refusal that has vexed and preoccupied the global public health community for the last several decades. Drawing on historical and epidemiological analyses, we cri...

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Published in:European journal of epidemiology Vol. 35; no. 4; pp. 325 - 330
Main Authors: Harrison, Emily A., Wu, Julia W.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.04.2020
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects:
Cardiology
Coronavirus Infections - epidemiology
Coronavirus Infections - prevention & control
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
COVID-19 vaccines
Drug delivery systems
Epidemics
Epidemiology
Essay
Humans
Infectious Diseases
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Oncology
Pandemics - prevention & control
Pneumonia, Viral - epidemiology
Pneumonia, Viral - prevention & control
Public concern
Public Health
Public Opinion
Safety regulations
United States - epidemiology
Vaccination
Vaccination Refusal
Vaccine hesitancy
Vaccines
Vaccines - administration & dosage
United States
COVID-19
Vaccine safety regulation
Vaccine hesitancy
Vaccine confidence
Culture
Historical
ISSN:0393-2990, 1573-7284, 1573-7284
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Summary:In the early months of the COVID-19 epidemic, some have wondered if the force of this global experience will solve the problem of vaccine refusal that has vexed and preoccupied the global public health community for the last several decades. Drawing on historical and epidemiological analyses, we critique contemporary approaches to reducing vaccine hesitancy and articulate our notion of vaccine confidence as an expanded way of conceptualizing the problem and how to respond to it. Intervening on the rush of vaccine optimism we see pervading present discourse around the COVID-19 epidemic, we call for a re-imagination of the culture of public health and the meaning of vaccine safety regulations. Public confidence in vaccination programs depends on the work they do for the community—social, political, and moral as well as biological. The concept of public health and its programs must be broader than the delivery of the vaccine technology itself. The narrative work and policy actions entailed in actualizing such changes will, we expect, be essential in achieving a true vaccine confidence, however the public reacts to the specific vaccine that may be developed for COVID-19.
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ISSN:0393-2990
1573-7284
1573-7284
DOI:10.1007/s10654-020-00634-3