{"id":11884,"date":"2026-04-15T21:59:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T02:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=11884"},"modified":"2026-04-15T21:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T02:59:07","slug":"the-misinformation-crisis-parents-physicians-and-the-changing-landscape-of-vaccine-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2026\/04\/15\/the-misinformation-crisis-parents-physicians-and-the-changing-landscape-of-vaccine-trust\/","title":{"rendered":"The Misinformation Crisis: Parents, Physicians, and the Changing Landscape of Vaccine Trust"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amwa-doc.org\/the-misinformation-crisis-parents-physicians-and-the-changing-landscape-of-vaccine-trust\/\">AMWA<\/a> Being a parent in medicine today can feel profoundly vulnerable. Recommendations evolve rapidly, headlines shift, and studies can trend on social media before most clinicians have fully reviewed the methodology. The effects are trickling down into exam rooms across the country, where parents are trying to do what they have always tried to do: protect their children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As physicians and trainees, we are trained to interpret evidence, weigh risk, and translate uncertainty. But parents are navigating that same uncertainty without the infrastructure we rely on daily. Vaccine conversations are often framed as adversarial, pitting hesitant parents against pro-vaccine clinicians. In reality, both sides share the same goal: protecting children\u2019s health. . We both want healthy children. We both want safety. The tension stems not from opposition but from the emotional burden of responsibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the first time, the American Academy of Pediatrics and Centers for Disease Control have released childhood vaccination recommendations which differ both in which vaccines are recommended as well as their scheduling. Despite these changes, recent national polling continues to show that most parents believe routine childhood vaccines are important for their communities and express confidence in their safety, particularly for longstanding vaccines such as Measles, Mumps, and Rubella (MMR) and Polio (KFF\/Washington Post Survey, 2025). Attitudes toward vaccination vary by type. Confidence in influenza and COVID-19 vaccines remains more divided, with fewer parents perceiving COVID-19 vaccination for children as essential to community health (Kaiser Family Foundation &amp; The Washington Post, 2025). Vaccine confidence is not a single construct; it is vaccine-specific, context-dependent, and influenced by recent public health experiences.<\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"qcj f a   E m kIk kjTnd   bEyfU\"><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMWA Being a parent in medicine today can feel profoundly vulnerable. Recommendations evolve rapidly, headlines shift, and studies can trend on social media before most clinicians have fully reviewed the methodology. The effects are trickling down into exam rooms across the country, where parents are trying to do what they have always tried to do: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misinformation-disinformation-and-conspiracy-theories"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11885,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11884\/revisions\/11885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}