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by edanm 1582 days ago
Have you read the article? He talks specifically about this very subject, and why this narrative is wrong.

> When I asked Twitter followers to suggest the best evidence they had that misinformation has become worse than it was 30 years ago, a lot of people expressed their frustration with the people who won’t get Covid-19 vaccines. I also find this extremely frustrating.

> That said, vaccination rates for kids have actually risen since the mid-1990s [...]

> A lot of people know that the licensing of the polio vaccine in the 1950s was widely greeted with celebratory headlines and the ringing of church bells. [...] Eighteen months after authorization, vaccine uptake was still slow, and that was after a much longer development process.