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The rapidly escalating pressure on many Americans to get a COVID-19 vaccine is undermining trust in public health, according to Martin Kulldorf, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School...
Kulldorf has long worked on vaccines, including messaging surrounding the shots.
“There’s a small group of people who are against vaccines but they haven’t really been influential. They’re very vocal, but they haven’t been influential because most people trust the vaccines and have confidence in them. What the vaccine, I would call them vaccine fanatics who are demanding vaccine passports and vaccine mandates, pushing for that—they have done more damage to the confidence in vaccines than these so called anti-vaxxers have ever been able to do,”
Even if people are coerced into getting a jab, “it will turn them off from public health, it will make them distrust public health and turn off from other vaccines that are not mandatory,” he added. “So it has sort of ripple effects on other aspects of public health that are very unfortunate.”
The Sweden native noted that confidence in vaccines remains high in his homeland, where no mandates are in place.
Coercing People to Get COVID-19 Vaccines Is Damaging Trust in Public Health: Harvard Professor
Kulldorf has long worked on vaccines, including messaging surrounding the shots.
“There’s a small group of people who are against vaccines but they haven’t really been influential. They’re very vocal, but they haven’t been influential because most people trust the vaccines and have confidence in them. What the vaccine, I would call them vaccine fanatics who are demanding vaccine passports and vaccine mandates, pushing for that—they have done more damage to the confidence in vaccines than these so called anti-vaxxers have ever been able to do,”
Even if people are coerced into getting a jab, “it will turn them off from public health, it will make them distrust public health and turn off from other vaccines that are not mandatory,” he added. “So it has sort of ripple effects on other aspects of public health that are very unfortunate.”
The Sweden native noted that confidence in vaccines remains high in his homeland, where no mandates are in place.
Coercing People to Get COVID-19 Vaccines Is Damaging Trust in Public Health: Harvard Professor