“Vaccine Choice Canada”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

Vaccine Choice Canada (VCC) is Canada's main anti-vaccination group. It has been founded in the 1980s under the name Vaccination Risk Awareness Network (VRAN) and adopted its current name in 2014.{{R|DG}}{{R|NP}}{{R|AP}}{{R|IC}} The group has been contributing to vaccine hesitancy in Canada, encouraging citizens to forego immunization and legislators to support anti-vaccine regulations and legislation.{{R|Vice}}{{R|NP}}

Vaccine hesitancy

VRR spreads the discredited theory that vaccination causes autism and denies that the introduction of vaccines led to a decline of the targeted diseases. They blame vaccination for a variety of ailments, including autism spectrum disorders, learning disabilities, ADHD, allergies and asthma.{{R|DG}}{{R|OB}}

Although a small fraction of vaccine doses provoke serious adverse reactions, public health professionals insist the benefits of being protected against a wide range of infectious diseases far outweigh the risks. Responding directly to communications from Vaccine Choice Canada, the Public Health Agency of Canada stated that the science on vaccines is unequivocal, but laments the actions of "a small but vocal anti-vaccination community that spreads false information. They use powerful emotional images and misinformation with their message. This creates confusion and fear for parents who are trying to make the best decisions for the health and wellbeing of their children." Timothy Caulfield estimates the proportion of Canadians who exhibit vaccine hesitancy between 20 to 30 percent, connecting the anti-vaccination movement to a rise in populism and a mistrust in expertise.{{R|GM}}{{R|CP}}

The World Health organization has identified vaccine hesitancy as one of 2019's ten global health threats to watch.{{R|WHO}}

Public communications

Vaccine Choice Canada reaches the Canadian public mainline through the internet, with its website and social media channels. However, it has recently experimented with other forms of public outreach.

In February 2019, Vaccine Choice bought space on 50 billboards in the Toronto area to broadcast anti-vaccine messages, such as one inviting parents to learn how to get around the obligation to vaccinate children in order to have them attend public schools. The messages displayed on the billboards were characterized as "half-truths" by Toronto's associate medical officer of health. The campaign was discontinued by Outfront Media after a request from Toronto City Council. The campaign was denounced by Ontario health minister Christine Elliott, who encouraged Ontarians to get inoculated.{{R|GM}}{{R|Vice}}{{R|CP}}

Also in early 2019, Vaccine Choice wrote to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to oppose upcoming changes that would make anti-vaccine messages less likely to be propagated by the social media platform, such as not sharing them as automatic recommendations. Speaking for VCC, Ted Kuntz equated these proposed changes in programming with sensorship.{{R|war}}

Vaccine Choice issued "Adding Insult To Injury Awards" in 2016 and 2017 to media outlets that produced news reports it disliked. The host of one program thus targeted, The Sunday Edition's Michael Enright, sarcastically accepted the award with pride, on behalf of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. He took the opportunity to talk about pediatrician Peter Hotez's warning that anti-vaccine campaigns will lead to serious outbreaks of measles. The segment of the program VCC was reacting to was an interview with Brendan Nyhan about the "backfire effect".{{R|SE}}

See also

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