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Vacillating over vaccines

A perfect public health storm
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April 2025, no. 474

Vaccine Nation: A perfect public health storm by Raina MacIntyre

NewSouth, $34.99 pb, 248 pp

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Vacillating over vaccines

A perfect public health storm
by
April 2025, no. 474

The Covid-19 pandemic changed our relationship with public health, perhaps irreparably. For many, it also changed their relationship to vaccination. Before Covid-19, few questioned the role of vaccines in public health. However, vaccine mandates, which were conflated – rightly or wrongly – with other mandated health measures, such as social distancing, face masks, and protracted lockdowns, meant that being vaccinated equated to an assault on individual freedom and well-being, the opposite of how vaccines were viewed in the past. Faith in the science supporting them is falling rapidly. According to leading epidemiologist Raina MacIntyre, the ‘impact of the anti-science movement and medical disinformation since the Covid-19 pandemic has been far-reaching’, resulting in lower vaccination rates across many preventable diseases. Add to this the ‘demonization of public health’ following the pandemic and the growing threat of a new pandemic, and you have a perfect public health storm brewing.

Vaccine Nation: A perfect public health storm

Vaccine Nation: A perfect public health storm

by Raina MacIntyre

NewSouth, $34.99 pb, 248 pp

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ABR receives a commission on items purchased through this link. All ABR reviews are fully independent.

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