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.
I’d like to mandate some public hangings of some mandaters.
Official mandates can motivate the vaccine-hesitant to seek vaccination (motivate=force),
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Pack the vaxx and the mandate in the same deep dark place.
Mandate Nuremberg trials.
My understanding is that only the not-yet-in-use Novavax injection is giving you spike protein antigens.
All of the others are giving you RNA or DNA so that your own cells make the antigen and are presumably destroyed by your own immune system.
All coronaviruses have some kind of spikes, and humans have been catching them for a long time. I am not sure of their toxicity to the body, but the method of their appearance is certainly different.
I’m not “hesitant”.
And I’m not taking it.
I got u’r mandate right here bub!
It's much better to have cardiac damage than to listen to your boss, a Karen, or even a fraudulently installed President lecture you on vaxxxxxxine hesitancy.
The idiots with medical degrees tried to hide this warning about vaxxxxxines cause cardiac damage. We can't have people knowing there are MANY GOOD reasons not to take an experimental, DANGEROUS shot.
Some of the folks willing to take shot after shot of questionable substance hang around on this website!
Seconded.
F off
Rd later about Covax caused body damages.
Maybe each country could establish an official commission that could seize people to inquire about their vax status and would have means to persuade people to get the jab. What to call the inquisitors? I got it - the Inquisition!
let
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“My understanding is that only the not-yet-in-use Novavax injection is giving you spike protein antigens.”
Perhaps it is only the Novavax, I wasn’t sure about the Chinavax or the Sputnik vax. But whether the spike protein is delivered by the vax itself or it programs you body to produce it, you’re still getting exposed to it either way.
“All of the others are giving you RNA or DNA so that your own cells make the antigen and are presumably destroyed by your own immune system.”
In a natural covid infection the body eliminates the spike protein in a week or 2, whereas a Stanford study showed the spike protein from te mRNA vax can stick around for 2 months. And the vaxx has other issues, the lipid nano-particle carrier used in the mRNA ones causes inflammation throughout the body and allows the virus to circulate to parts of the body it otherwise wouldn’t reach from a natural infection.
“All coronaviruses have some kind of spikes”
True, but it depends on the particular genomic sequences in the different spikes as to how toxic they would be.
‘The COVID-19 pandemic has been a trying time for everyone.’
well, no; a pandemic did not try people’s patience, politicians and their medical flunkies with power boners did...
My plan is to not take any one of the existing “vaccines” for this particular virus. I do not believe the risk/benefit justifies it and I have an aversion to taking a “cure” made by the same people who made the “disease”.
I look for information about the risk to exposure to the disease, itself, since I have not had it, yet. Misinformation is rampant. There is the concern about the spike protein, itself, which you have noted. I already made my comments to you.
I believe that the manner of entry and appearance of the spike protein is so radically different between these “vaccines” and the disease, itself, that I am currently not worried by the disease, even with this spike protein. I attribute the dangers to this radical new attempt at “inoculation”.
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