Singh et al., "Misinformation, Believability, and Vaccine Acceptance Over 40 Countries: Takeaways From the Initial Phase of The COVID-19 Infodemic" (2022)
2022-02-09 → 2026-08-14
Karandeep Singh, Gabriel Lima, Meeyoung Cha, Chiyoung Cha, Juhi Kulshrestha, Yong-Yeol Ahn, and Onur Varol, PLOS ONE 17(2), e0263381 (2022)
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@article{singh2022vaccine,
author = {Karandeep Singh and Gabriel Lima and Meeyoung Cha and Chiyoung Cha and Juhi Kulshrestha and Yong-Yeol Ahn and Onur Varol},
title = {Misinformation, Believability, and Vaccine Acceptance Over 40 Countries: Takeaways From the Initial Phase of The COVID-19 Infodemic},
journal = {PLOS ONE},
volume = {17},
number = {2},
pages = {e0263381},
doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0263381},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
eprint = {2104.10864},
primaryClass = {cs.SI},
year = {2022},
}
Uses a survey of more than 18,400 people across 40 countries to measure exposure to and perceived believability of COVID-19 misinformation and their association with vaccine acceptance. Believing misinformation is strongly associated with vaccine hesitancy, and respondents in poorer regions encounter and believe misinformation more often.
Misinformation, Vaccine hesitancy, COVID 19 vaccine