Letters to the Editor: Vaccine skeptics are the victims of an anti-science cottage industry

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People like Andrew Wakefield and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. take advantage of people's fears over vaccines and make an unnecessary problem much worse.

. But she does not address a major factor of vaccine hesitancy: false and misleading information spread by the anti-vaccine lobby, which deserves to be labeled as anti-science.

People may not know the origin of the misinformation, but it still impacts them. I hope Kieffer details in her upcoming book how such people spread misinformation and make vaccine hesitancy far worse than any normal level of anxiety that folks would feel for what is a safe and effective way to prevent disease.

It is critical for people to understand that we now have these coronavirus vaccines because of long-term support of scientific research, specifically the search for a generic flu vaccine and work on specific coronavirus threats before the appearance of COVID-19.People need to understand that these vaccines sometimes cause a few days of flu-like symptoms. This is the body “gearing up” an assembly plan for antibody production when the real virus shows up.

 

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