Posted on 06/10/2022 4:15:02 PM PDT by DoodleBob
Public health authorities seek to increase vaccine uptake, especially among those who are hesitant. But there is little evidence as to the best way to achieve this. New research suggests that rather than direct incentives, such as money, government-imposed mandates requiring vaccination to access certain public spaces could be the key. To explore this, researchers used the variation in the dates of mandates and subsequent COVID-19 vaccine uptake across Canadian provinces and European countries.
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a trying time for everyone. Amongst the challenges facing public health authorities around the world is the struggle to vaccinate as many people as possible in order to slow the spread of the virus. Although the majority of people do seem to realize the benefits of vaccination, people vary in how urgently they seek vaccination or in how hesitant they might be to vaccinate at all.
Different ways to encourage people to vaccinate have been suggested and tried, including public awareness campaigns and even financial incentives. But Professor Hitoshi Shigeoka from the Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Tokyo and his international team have studied the impact of vaccine mandates—requirements for proof of vaccination to use certain public spaces and amenities—and found those might be more effective at persuading people to vaccinate.
"Despite the proven benefits of vaccination, uptake in many countries slowed in the summer of 2021, so naturally health officials wished to reverse that," said Shigeoka. "Previously, we investigated the effectiveness of mask mandates and found that those did lead to a reduction of cases. To follow up, we thought there might be a relationship between vaccine mandates and the uptake of vaccinations. Provinces in Canada, as well as the European countries of France, Italy and Germany, all issued mandates at different times and also had national vaccination programs. So we looked into what happened around and after the time the mandates came into effect or were announced."
Shigeoka and his team used a statistical method called difference in differences to explore potential connections between mandates and vaccine uptake. Since the timing of the announcement of vaccination mandates differs across 10 provinces in Canada, ranging from early August 2021 (Quebec) to late September 2021 (Prince Edward Island), they used the provinces that had not yet announced vaccine mandates as the control groups for those which had already announced mandates.
"We knew there was increased uptake following the mandates, but something that surprised us was how much the mere announcement of mandates rather than their actual implementation boosted vaccination rates," said Shigeoka.
It's important to note that although this kind of data analysis about the effect of mandates is important for public health authorities, there are other related issues such as ethics, economics, politics, and other factors, which were not a part of this study.
The study is published in Nature Human Behaviour.
Public health creatures.
2020 called they want their irrational panic back
Vaccine Mandates - Because people who can destroy a vibrant world economy in under 2 years need something else to do…
I am so not motivated.
How about making a vaccine the traditional way instead of turning our cells into spike factories.
They can shove their mandates up their bums, if they can get their heads out of the way long enough.
Nope.
“related issues such as ethics, economics, politics, and other factors, which were not a part of this study”
It’s obvious they didn’t examine the “ethics” because from an ethical standpoint, there’s no way they could justify mandating an experimental vaccine that hasn’t been adequately tested. Especially the ones using the mRNA technology which have never been used before. This was just a bad flu not Ebola, there was no justification for any of this.
Another good way that maybe they have not considered is to come up with a product that is safe and effective rather than one that is harmful and of dubious merit. The kind of product that they don't have to hide the clinical data for? That they don't have to run propaganda campaigns for? You know...doing that whole ethical thing of first doing no harm that seems to have gone out of style.
This is also known as social credits. Do what we tell you or you can’t get food or gasoline.
Mandate that governments get back to their job description and stay out of peoples lives
Look for it. It’s coming.
Some were made the traditional way, but even those presented dangers because they too incorporated the spike protein which by itself is toxic. These conventional ones probably aren’t as bad as the mRNA ones though.
Ban me from public spaces and I stop paying taxes.
I have no doubt.
I dont do mandates.
I identity as a hero.
Well, hmm. For me spell check changes “hetro” to “hero”. I can live wit dat.
Not even the hint of the possibility that there is any restraint whatsoever on the government being able to enforce regulations, not even laws, to get you fired, keep you from ordinary commerce, or even travel on an airplane from one province to another in the same country.
Hundreds of people are dying weekly from SADS. Otherwise known as “Your dumb @ss got the vax and now you’re paying the piper.”
I know, right? I had to look at the date of the article to see if this wasn’t a re-post from a couple of years ago.
I can’t believe medical authorities are still trying to push this clot shot on people. But there are plenty of stupid people out there who will gladly line up for a shot, then another shot, then two or three more.
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