{"id":9272,"date":"2025-04-23T08:37:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T13:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9272"},"modified":"2025-04-23T08:37:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T13:37:20","slug":"like-measles-misinformation-is-spreading-poll-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/04\/23\/like-measles-misinformation-is-spreading-poll-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Like measles, misinformation is spreading, poll finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/shots-health-news\/2025\/04\/23\/nx-s1-5372760\/measles-misinformation-poll\">NPR<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The U.S. has now reported more than 800 measles cases in at least two dozen states. The vast majority of cases \u2014 more than 600 \u2014 are in Texas. In the midst of the outbreak, a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/other\/poll-finding\/kff-tracking-poll-on-health-information-and-trust-the-publics-views-on-measles-outbreaks-and-misinformation\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"new poll, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">new poll<\/a>&nbsp;shows how much misinformation people are seeing about measles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The good news is the vast majority of people still have&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/shots-health-news\/2025\/03\/30\/nx-s1-5343997\/measles-vaccine-hesitancy-enthusiasm-outbreaks\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"confidence in the safety&nbsp;, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">confidence in the safety&nbsp;<\/a>of the measles vaccine, says&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/person\/liz-hamel\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Liz Hamel, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Liz Hamel<\/a>, director of public opinion and survey research at KFF, a nonprofit health policy research organization which conducted the poll.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bad news: People are being exposed to a lot of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/04\/14\/1244690933\/vaccine-expert-worries-child-measles-deaths-are-being-normalized\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"&nbsp;false claims about measles&nbsp;, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&nbsp;false claims about measles&nbsp;<\/a>\u2014 and many don&#8217;t know what to make of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/shots-health-news\/2025\/04\/23\/nx-s1-5372760\/measles-misinformation-poll\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR The U.S. has now reported more than 800 measles cases in at least two dozen states. The vast majority of cases \u2014 more than 600 \u2014 are in Texas. In the midst of the outbreak, a&nbsp;new poll&nbsp;shows how much misinformation people are seeing about measles. The good news is the vast majority of people [&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-9272","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\/9272","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=9272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9273,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9272\/revisions\/9273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}