Source: US News & World Report
“More than a third of Americans continue to express mistrust in the science behind COVID vaccines, a new study finds. This level of mistrust has remained relatively consistent, expressed by 36% of people in 2021, 33% in 2022 and 36% in 2023. People who lost a family member or close friend to COVID were significantly more likely to trust vaccine science and accept vaccination, results showed. … ‘Our findings underscore the critical role of trust in science during public health crises,’ said lead researcher Trenton White, a postdoctoral fellow with the Barcelona Institute for Global Health.” [editor’s note: Perhaps they should also look into the trustWORTHINESS of whatever’s being held out as “science” for political reasons at any given moment, too – TLK] (11/06/24)