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Read MoreA total of 15690 articles were identified through database searches. After excluding 8073 duplicates and a further 6124 from the screening of titles and abstracts, 1493 articles were full-text screened for eligibility (Fig. 1). Ultimately 519 articles were eligible for inclusion,
Read MoreParticipants and procedure To examine the influence of knowledge about the COVID-19 vaccines on vaccine hesitancy, a cross-sectional survey was designed. This online survey was opened for data collection for three months from February 2021 to May 2021 upon receiving an
Read MoreThe empirical analysis is based on a nationally representative survey (N = 1000) that we conducted in Hungary at the end of the third wave of the pandemic when vaccines were already available for everyone (Number of cases can vary among analyses.
Read MoreThis anti-vaccine activism that is now linked to health freedom politics has helped to amplify anti-vaccine sentiment in other countries. This explains in part the ‘freedom convoy’ anti-vaccine protests in Canada, and anti-mask and anti-vaccine rallies held in the UK
Read MoreDescriptive statistics In total, 1035 correlations were extracted for the 17 available samples (N = 16,350). The maximal sample size recorded for each sample varied between 110 and 5364 (Mdn = 546). With the exception of one international sample4, all studies were conducted in
Read MoreCommunities related to vaccine discourse We constructed the retweet (RT) networks from the COVID-19 tweets to identify anti-vaxxers and other groups (see Methods). The resulting networks are illustrated in Fig. 1a for English and 1c for Japanese. Figure 1b, d
Read MoreBall, P. & Maxmen, A. The epic battle against coronavirus misinformation and conspiracy theories. Nature 581, 371–374. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01452-z (2020). ADS CAS Article PubMed Google Scholar Gross, M. Recovering a sense of reality. Curr. Biol. 31, R1–R3 (2021). CAS Article Google
Read MoreBrennen, J. S., Simon, F., Howard, P. N. & Nielsen, R. K. Types, sources, and claims of COVID-19 misinformation. Reuters Institute 7, 3–1 (2020). Google Scholar Gallotti, R., Valle, F., Castaldo, N., Sacco, P. & De Domenico, M. Assessing the
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