{"id":8995,"date":"2025-03-18T19:50:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T00:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8995"},"modified":"2025-03-18T19:50:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T00:50:15","slug":"its-not-a-vaccine-its-a-shot-uncovering-a-new-trend-in-vaccine-scepticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/03\/18\/its-not-a-vaccine-its-a-shot-uncovering-a-new-trend-in-vaccine-scepticism\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s not a vaccine, it\u2019s a shot\u2019: uncovering a new trend in vaccine\u00a0scepticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/its-not-a-vaccine-its-a-shot-uncovering-a-new-trend-in-vaccine-scepticism-251938\">The Conversation<\/a> It has long been recognised that attitudes towards vaccines may be&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.asset-scienceinsociety.eu\/sites\/default\/files\/sage_working_group_revised_report_vaccine_hesitancy.pdf\">vaccine-specific<\/a>, so that people may take up some, but not others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On July 26 2021, the following statement was posted on Twitter (later renamed X) about the COVID-19 vaccine:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>It\u2019s not even a real vaccine. You can catch Covid and also spread it if you are vaccinated. You don\u2019t catch polio or MMR after you are vaccinated.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S2590136225000142\">My colleagues and I<\/a>\u00a0came across this comment and many like it while analysing a nine-million-word dataset consisting of tweets about the COVID and MMR vaccines posted between 2008 and 2022, to learn more about vaccine scepticism. We discovered that the author of this tweet is not alone in questioning the status of the COVID-19 vaccines as vaccines, and comparing it to others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/its-not-a-vaccine-its-a-shot-uncovering-a-new-trend-in-vaccine-scepticism-251938\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Conversation It has long been recognised that attitudes towards vaccines may be&nbsp;vaccine-specific, so that people may take up some, but not others. On July 26 2021, the following statement was posted on Twitter (later renamed X) about the COVID-19 vaccine: It\u2019s not even a real vaccine. You can catch Covid and also spread it [&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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vaccine-headlines"],"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\/8995","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=8995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8996,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8995\/revisions\/8996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}