Monitoring the gap between evidence and vaccination behaviour by sampling the location-specific consumption of health information from news and social media

在过去十年中，疫苗接种计划挽救了数百万人的生命，但拒绝接种疫苗威胁着它们的成功。我们提出了跟踪社交媒体的新方法，以衡量不同地区的人们如何从媒体和其他来源接触到有关疫苗的不同信息。这将帮助我们理解为什么一些社区似乎更容易受到疫苗犹豫的影响，并帮助公共卫生组织更有效地解决疫苗接受问题。

Vaccination programs have saved millions of lives in the last decade but vaccine refusal threatens their success. We propose new methods for tracking social media to measure how people in different locations are exposed to different information about vaccines from the media and other sources. This will help us understand why some communities appear to be more susceptible to vaccine hesitancy, and help public health organisations more effectively address the problem of vaccine acceptance.