variants
or less commonly antivax
: anti-vaccination
Aggressive anti-vax campaigns claiming that vaccines are unsafe and can lead to autism—a theory long disproven—drive much of the vaccine hesitancy worldwide.—
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Lily HydeThe governor, who works hard to straddle the line between being antivax and merely being the friend of the anti-vaxxers, didn't mention the word "vaccine" in his address …—News-Journal (Daytona Beach, Florida)
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But his late-career excellence, and more gracious on-court demeanor the last few years, have gone a long way towards winning over the public skeptical of his Covid-era behavior and anti-vax stance.
—Sean Gregory / Paris, TIME, 4 Aug. 2024
The other is a growing anti-vax feeling, where people just don’t want to get vaccinated.
—Steven Levy, WIRED, 25 July 2024
The Biden White House issued an edict in the spring of 2021 banning the anti-vax effort, which also disparaged vaccines produced by other rivals, and the Pentagon initiated an internal review, Reuters found.
—Christopher Bing, Karen Lema and Joel Shectman, USA TODAY, 26 July 2024
In 2022, several musicians including Neil Young and Joni Mitchell pulled their tracks from Spotify to boycott Rogan’s anti-vax rhetoric.
—Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 9 July 2024
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Sean Gregory / Paris, TIME, 4 Aug. 2024
The other is a growing anti-vax feeling, where people just don’t want to get vaccinated.
—Steven Levy, WIRED, 25 July 2024
The Biden White House issued an edict in the spring of 2021 banning the anti-vax effort, which also disparaged vaccines produced by other rivals, and the Pentagon initiated an internal review, Reuters found.
—Christopher Bing, Karen Lema and Joel Shectman, USA TODAY, 26 July 2024
In 2022, several musicians including Neil Young and Joni Mitchell pulled their tracks from Spotify to boycott Rogan’s anti-vax rhetoric.
—Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 9 July 2024
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“Anti-vax.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anti-vax. Accessed 2 Oct. 2024.
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