All posts by Katie Attwell
Social media spreads rumours about COVID vaccine harms … but it doesn’t always start them
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. For decades, anti-vaccine movements have generated and spread rumours that vaccines cause serious health problems. The rollout of COVID vaccines has provided new opportunities to spread misinformation. At the start of the pandemic, people were already worried about…
Time to remove vaccine mandates? Not so fast – it could have unintended consequences
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Several Australian states have used mandates to drive up COVID vaccination rates. Governments justified the mandates on the basis of preventing the spread of disease and protecting the vulnerable. Now many states are rolling back these mandates, with…