12 Facts About Vaccine hesitancy

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Vaccine hesitancy is a delay in acceptance, or downright refusal, of vaccines despite the availability of vaccine services.

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Vaccine hesitancy is complex and context-specific, varying across time, place and vaccines.

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3.

Vaccine hesitancy has contributed to the resurgence of preventable disease.

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Vaccine hesitancy spent 47 days in the Intensive Care Unit, and 57 total days in the hospital, for $811,929, not including the cost of airlifting him to the Oregon Health and Science University, Doernbecher Children's Hospital, or the subsequent two-and-a-half weeks of inpatient rehabilitation he required.

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5.

Vaccine hesitancy is challenging and optimal strategies for approaching it remain uncertain.

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Mandatory vaccination is one set of policy measures to address vaccine hesitancy by imposing penalties or burdens on those who fail to vaccinate.

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Vaccine hesitancy had seen it used in Turkey and, in 1718, had her son successfully variolated in Constantinople under the supervision of Charles Maitland.

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Vaccine hesitancy was maintained initially through arm-to-arm transfer and later through production on the skin of animals, and bacteriological sterility was impossible.

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Vaccine hesitancy moderated his views on compulsion but encouraged contacts and his staff to accept vaccination.

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Vaccine hesitancy later sponsored the National Anti-Vaccination Conference, which, held in Philadelphia in October 1908, led to the creation of The Anti-Vaccination League of America.

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Vaccine hesitancy remained a staunch opponent of vaccination until his death in 1916.

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12.

Vaccine hesitancy is becoming an increasing concern, particularly in industrialized nations.

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