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How COVID-19 is changing our expectations for other vaccines – National Geographic
The shots developed during this pandemic have been stunningly successful—and experts worry that may spell trouble for future vaccine uptake.
As scientists raced to create new vaccines that would fight the novel coronavirus, Matthew Motta had a question: What did Americans expect from these vaccines?
Motta, a political scientist at Oklahoma State University who studies vaccine hesitancy, polled nearly 1,000 American adults on their expectations for the then-hypothetical shots. His peer-reviewed study, published this March in Social Science & Medicine, uncovered what he described as predictable results: Given the choice between various…
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