From Parents’ Vaccine Refusal to a COVID Vaccine: Understanding the Politics of Immunization

Sociologist Jennifer Reich, PhD, examines how parents make decisions about their children’s health and vaccines. Reich looks at how parents who opt out of vaccines weigh risk and benefit, evaluate scientific claims, strategize how to promote their children’s health without vaccines, and reframe this public health intervention as a series of individual choices they are uniquely qualified to make. Building on this work, Reich then examines how vaccines against the novel coronavirus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic is presenting new questions about vaccine hesitancy and trust.

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