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by jonas21 409 days ago
16% of American adults believe that vaccines are unsafe [1]. That's 40 million people, which is not exactly a tiny number.

While concerns about the Covid-19 vaccine are highest (24%), significant numbers of people still feel that "normal" vaccines are unsafe, like MMR (9%) and flu (11%).

[1] https://www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/vaccine-confiden...

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9% (if accurate) is pretty fringe in my view. Nobody wins anything or has a mandate for changing anything with 9% support.