Health Affairs November 6, 2023
Every year, in the decades before the COVID-19 pandemic, tens of bills were introduced in states legislatures aimed at undermining public confidence in and access to vaccines. Politicization of vaccines has not disappeared in the wake of COVID-19, but just the opposite as vaccine misinformation has been perpetuated by politicians and even, incredibly, by some state health officials. In addition to legislation, the COVID-19 pandemic was accompanied by a significant influx in vaccine-related litigation in the US courts. It has, to a degree, shifted the vaccine policy battleground from legislatures and into the courts (although legislation continues to be important, arguably, litigation is increasingly constraining what legislatures seeking to protect public health can do).
Major questions pertaining to vaccine science...
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