hesitancy
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"Vaccine hesitancy should not simply be understood as a lack of scientific knowledge among the public," Daniel Fritz Silvallana, a health communication researcher at Deakin University, Australia, told AFP.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
Manufacturers noted a degree of client hesitancy, largely due to tariffs, which were reported to have negatively impacted international demand, especially among clients based in the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
The rising number of cases comes as vaccine hesitancy in the US has increased in recent years, leading to lower immunisation rates.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
In interviews with KFF Health News, six doctors shared insights on this new era of vaccine hesitancy — and what could be done to turn the situation around.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
But my hesitancy only triggered something in Czerny that I will forever associate with New Yorkers—an instinctive and immediate push back against thinking small.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
Many medical professionals, like experts at Seattle’s Glow Medispa, are now working even harder to clear up misinformation and to assuage common hesitancies.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 7, 2024
"There’s different kinds of hesitancies, right? So I don’t think that there’s much excuse to not know the information available anymore. Hence that’s why I think it should be mandatory at this stage," he explained.
From Fox News ● Aug. 11, 2021
“We learned firsthand what the hesitancies were for Baltimore City residents,” Dzirasa said.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 7, 2020
But participants learn about their own hesitancies in the process and test out new strategies.
From Forbes ● Sep. 23, 2014
She divined a world of hesitancies behind the Musketeer swing of the shoulders.
From The Rough Road by William John Locke
