Division of Infectious Diseases, Children's Mercy - Kansas City.
Office of Research Services, St. Luke's Health System.
Curr Opin Pediatr. 2022 Apr 1;34(2):156-162. doi: 10.1097/MOP.0000000000001111.
To offer: (1) Insight into the antivaccine movement's use of social media negatively impacting vaccine hesitancy and disease outbreaks, (2) Examples via case observations, and (3) Selected resources to combat vaccine hesitancy.
For the past 25 years, daily social media usage has risen continually, allowing information to spread widely to a reading/listening/viewing audience via mostly unvetted social media sites. During a pandemic/epidemic (e.g., coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic), an overabundance of information from many sources, including social media, has led to what is now termed as an 'infodemic'. Infodemics arise from overwhelming amounts of both correct and incorrect information from experts and nonexperts alike. Differentiating correct from incorrect information is difficult for social media users who can be swayed by nonscientific 'influencers' or fear-mongering more than by vetted expert scientific information. Consequently, vaccine misinformation is steadily increasing via social media, the use of which is often believed to be associated with vaccine hesitancy. Stopping the spread of misinformation has been a difficult task.
Vaccine misinformation on social media has been detrimental to public health. Vaccine advocates must increase the use of social media to the advantage of public health in the persistent struggle against vaccine hesitancy/refusal.
提供：（1）了解反疫苗运动如何利用社交媒体对疫苗犹豫和疾病爆发产生负面影响；（2）通过案例观察举例说明；（3）选择资源以对抗疫苗犹豫。
在过去的 25 年中，社交媒体的日常使用持续增加，使信息通过大多数未经审查的社交媒体网站广泛传播给阅读/收听/观看的受众。在大流行/流行病（例如，2019 年冠状病毒病大流行）期间，大量信息来自许多来源，包括社交媒体，导致了现在所谓的“信息疫情”。信息疫情源于专家和非专家的大量正确和不正确的信息。社交媒体用户很难区分正确和不正确的信息，他们更容易受到非科学“影响者”或恐惧煽动的影响，而不是经过审查的专家科学信息的影响。因此，疫苗错误信息通过社交媒体不断增加，社交媒体的使用通常被认为与疫苗犹豫有关。阻止错误信息的传播一直是一项艰巨的任务。
社交媒体上的疫苗错误信息对公共健康造成了危害。疫苗倡导者必须增加社交媒体的使用，以利于公共卫生，在对抗疫苗犹豫/拒绝的持续斗争中。
