While vaccination has shown its effectiveness against severe forms of Covid-19, part of the population has refused to be vaccinated. Fueled today by a whole heap of false information circulating via social networks, this vaccine distrust is not new. New vaccines have often aroused strong reluctance, if not resistance, on the part of a certain number of people, but the return of measles shows that distrust of vaccination has been very present for several years.
How can this reluctance to vaccines, which nevertheless save lives, be explained? Why and how do the “ fake news” that fuel vaccine mistrust? Why does scientific and medical research no longer convince as much as before?
Geraldine Mayr and the Dr Jimmy Mohamed receive Sandrine Sarrazin. She is a research fellow at Inserm, at the Marseille-Luminy Immunology Center. She is also part of the “Inserm Riposte” unit, responsible for supporting journalists in the processing of information related to the pandemic. With her, Bonjour Docteur takes stock of vaccines in the face of “fake news” and the mistrust they arouse.
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