A fringe anti-vaccine movement took advantage of the Covid-19 pandemic to bring conspiracy theories to a much wider audience, propelling dangerous misinformation about life-saving jabs that still endures five years later, experts warn. Vaccine scepticism had been around long before Covid-19, but the pandemic “served as an accelerant, helping to turn a niche movement into a more powerful force”, according to a 2023 paper in The Lancet journal.

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Vaccine misinformation: A lasting side effect from COVID-19

PARIS — A fringe anti-vaccine movement took advantage of the Covid-19 pandemic to bring conspiracy theories to a much wider audience, propelling dangerous misinformation about life-saving jabs that still endures five years later, experts warn. Vaccine skepticism was around long before Covid but the pandemic "served as an accelerant, helping to turn a niche movement into a more powerful force," according to a 2023 paper in The Lancet journal. The…

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Vaccine misinformation: A lasting side effect from Covid

A fringe anti-vaccine movement took advantage of the Covid-19 pandemic to bring conspiracy theories to a much wider audience, propelling dangerous misinformation about life-saving jabs that still endures five years later, experts warn.
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Paris. The Covid-19 pandemic became a fertile ground for disinformation networks, amplifying messages from vaccine skeptics, who took advantage of the health crisis to gain visibility and consolidate their influence at the global level.A movement that changed its strategyBefore 2020, anti-vaccine discourses were directed primarily at parents, as children were the main recipients of vaccines.However, with the arrival of the covid-19, the narrativ…

París. La pandemia de Covid-19 se convirtió en un terreno fértil para las redes de desinformación, amplificando mensajes de los escépticos de las vacunas, quienes aprovecharon la crisis sanitaria para ganar visibilidad y consolidar su influencia a nivel global.Un movimiento que cambió de estrategiaAntes de 2020, los discursos antivacunas se dirigían principalmente a los padres, al ser los niños los principales receptores de vacunas. Sin embargo,…

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