WHO Names Anti-Vax Top Health Threat: Hysteresis May Describe Movement – Clinical Advisor

Read article - An article about how the World Health Organization (WHO) named vaccine hesitancy one of the top 10 threats to global health in 2019 and quotes Feng Fu, assistant professor of mathematics and adjunct assistant professor of biomedical data science. "Once people question the safety or effectiveness of a vaccine, it can be very difficult to get them to move beyond those negative associations," says Fu, about research he led that explained that hysteresis may describe persistent vaccine skepticism. "Hysteresis is a powerful force that is difficult to break at a societal level."