Low trust in government, conspiracy beliefs and watching YouTube predicts vaccine hesitancy
People who look to social media for information, particularly YouTube, are less willing to be vaccinated against COVID-19, according to a new publication from the universities of Oxford and Southampton whose researchers are urging the government and social media firms to take urgent action over the findings.
Experts propose ‘five Cs’ to tackle vaccine hesitancy
The reluctance or refusal to accept Covid-19 vaccinations can be tackled by a five-pronged strategy to address the behavioural and socio-demographic factors behind vaccine hesitancy. Writing in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, a group of population health, demographic, epidemiology, and behavioural scientists propose an approach focused on confidence, complacency, convenience, communication, and context.
Children learned ‘little or nothing’ during school closures, despite online learning
School closures in the last year have led to serious learning losses, with primary-age school pupils making virtually no progress studying at home, according to a new study by researchers at Oxford’s Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, published in Proceedings for the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Learning losses were particularly pronounced in families with low levels of education.