How to Use anti-vax in a Sentence

anti-vax

adjective
  • 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
  • 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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