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Americans Trusted Vaccines More in Recent Years, but Misinformation Could Put That at Risk – Newsweek
Professor Grant McFadden of Arizona State University told Newsweek “disinformation and outright lies” circulate widely.
The proportion of the U.S. population who strongly believe vaccines are safe, important, and effective has risen in the past half decade, according to a study.
Between 2015 and 2019, the estimated percentage of the U.S. population who strongly agreed vaccines are safe went up from just over half (51.03 percent) to 61.13 percent. The percentage who thought they were important rose from 63.09 to 74.72 percent, while those agreed they were effective climbed from 56.13 to 65.05 percent.
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