How to Use anti-vax in a Sentence

anti-vax

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  • The play’s style is dated, but the issues are evergreen in anti-vax America.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Partisans will look to see where the authors come down on the great public health debates of the last four years: Lockdown or not; masks or no masks; vaccine or anti-vax.
    Alan Murray, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2023
  • There was definitely an uptick after Covid, in the anti-vax messaging, the anti-mask stuff.
    Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The result was a train wreck for legitimate science in which the anti-vax position prevailed, or such was the impression that was left.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2023
  • Indeed, around 2010, the health-freedom surge began transforming anti-vax views into a core right-wing value.
    Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, The New Republic, 28 Feb. 2023
  • She’s also been reporting on RFK Jr. and the anti-vax conspiracy ecosystem for years.
    Makena Kelly, WIRED, 28 Mar. 2024
  • In the curious state of mind that anti-vax doctors are known for, the cold-fusion crew dug in, and its members now grouse about having been blackballed from elite journals and reputable conferences.
    Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 1 Mar. 2023
  • His anti-vax group Vaccine Safety Research Foundation was an exhibitor at both events.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 12 Mar. 2024
  • Fear of the Covid-19 vaccine has spurred anti-vax sentiments across the country and conspiracy theories are likely to blame for much of the resistance to the shot, NPR reported.
    Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Such anti-vax positions are a way of outflanking former President Donald Trump from the right, Jolly added.
    Steven Lemongello, Orlando Sentinel, 16 Mar. 2023
  • There’s a whole disinformation-for-hire industry out there that can switch from anti-vax to anti-Ukrainian disinformation from one day to the next.
    Konstanze Frischen, Forbes, 3 May 2023
  • There’s the anti-vax community who associate numerous long Covid symptoms with the vaccines.
    Joshua Cohen, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2023
  • Public health experts and even his own family members have described his anti-vax work as misleading and dangerous.
    Tori Otten, The New Republic, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Listen as Ina Pinkney, a passionate speaker who travels around the country advocating for vaccines, joins host Dana Taylor to discuss the anti-vax movement.
    Sara Ganim, USA TODAY, 14 May 2024
  • The anti-vax crowd has cited this as justification for not getting vaccinated.
    Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2023
  • The federal employees reaching out to highlight some of the nutty anti-vax ravings and other nonsense on the sites (often going against the sites’ own rules) were perfectly within their authority to make contact and ask for changes.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 19 Mar. 2024
  • There was, in fact, quite a showdown between the authorities and a significant segment of the populace, and the parliamentary vote strengthened an already active anti-vax movement.
    Justin E. H. Smith, Harper's Magazine, 11 May 2022
  • This phenomenon exploded during the pandemic, when anti-vax sentiment took hold in large parts of the wellness community.
    Laura Paddison, CNN, 4 Feb. 2024
  • But what the anti-vax movement during the Covid pandemic has shown is that conspiracy theories really cross all political boundaries.
    The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 24 May 2023
  • Onstage, Rogan paces back and forth, veering into jokes about trans athletes or being anti-vax and generally gearing his comedy for hunters, MMA fans and ballcap-wearing bros with no worries of offending, being canceled or being filmed.
    Nate Jackson, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2023
  • Schlossberg’s comments follow a string of other family members expressing their discontent with the anti-vax candidate seemingly supported by more Republicans than Democrats.
    Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 21 July 2023
  • The vaccine was discovered faster than any expected; the rollout is still hampered by squabbles over intellectual property and nationalism, inappropriate to a global crisis; the anti-vax hurdle remains difficult.
    Armond Cohen, Foreign Affairs, 3 Nov. 2021

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