#hesitancy

Derrick Broze breaks down a recent study examining so-called Canine Vaccine Hesitancy.

Ukraine has another case of paralytic Polio. This time in Zakarpattia oblast. An unvaccinated 12 year old girl. 4 other unvaccinated children are infected as well in the oblast. Those 4 other cases are

Ukraine like the US has been grappling with how to handle medical professionals that spread misinformation around the coronavirus and the vaccines. A number of doctors/health systems have been implicated

On October 26th, Rivne and Mykolaiv oblasts will enter the red epidemiological level. Ukraine nationally is now at 82.9 hospitalizations per 100k. That's higher than the worst US state peak, Florida's

Donetsk, Zaporizhia, Dnipropetrovsk, and Odessa oblasts will join Kherson in the red epidemiological level on the 18th. Kherson has been operating in the red level since the 15th. Lockdowns are unfortunately

Look at the death curve for Romania in this brutal Delta wave. Prior to this most recent wave Romania had already suffered so much. Through July their excess death rate was #14 in the world with 338 per

In a lengthy WaPo article about the low covid vaccination rates among members of the U.S. armed forces, there is not a single quote by anyone who refuses to be vaccinated and not a single reason offered

Ukraine has its first case of Polio in more than 6 years. An 18 month old girl from Rivne oblast is now paralyzed. The girl's parents said they did not vaccinate her for religious reasons. In 2015, Ukraine

I'm very quite concerned about Ukraine. The Delta wave is upon the country. Test positivity is up to 12%. Up 200% since late June when Delta was first detected. Cases are up 380% since then. Hospitalization

I didn’t think I would make one of these posts, but I’ve been feeling for awhile that it might be a good idea to. Brace yourselves — it’s a long one, and it’s about “the media” and vaccines. I am fully

In general, people (when making personal medical decisions) refer to experts, given how specialization of knowledge works especially in advanced fields. Institutions or people who are seen as unbiased

For people interested in Russian events, particularly pertaining to how their vaccination campaign is going, here is an article on how it is going in Russia. The answer is: very badly. I don't have time

Overall we are finally hitting the expected vaccine hesitancy wall, so vaccination rates are slowing significantly. Only 9% of adults as of the second half of April remained to be vaccinated among the

It's funny to see how the mainstream media treats the growing refusal to get an experimental injection the keep showing more and more risks. It's becoming more and more obvious how off the rails the whole

The seroprevalence data for the second half of March is out. In TN, about a quarter of blood samples (taken for reasons unrelated to covid) have antibodies from infection (not vaccination). This comes

Vaccine hesitancy is a top worry among the medical establishment and many of the health experts who favor vaccination. The anti-vaxxers are viewed as a threat to the goal of saving humanity through

This has come up again with the J&J vaccine pause, but I'm curious how we should approach risk perception with vaccines and in general with public irrationality. Let me just preface if I was in charge

Here's some highlights. Vaccine hesitancy continues to decline as more people get the vaccine. I'm pretty optimistic that most people are going to get the vaccine. However there might be large geographic

I'm sharing this publicly because it is the closest thing out there to an answer on when I will personally be eligible to get a Covid vaccine. Those of you who are currently whining about how people are