Key Takeaways

• With childhood vaccination rates in the U.S. continuing to decline as measles cases rise across the U.S., KFF’s latest Tracking Poll on Health Information and Trust shows that several commonly circulated vaccine myths remain pervasive among the public. Many adults say they have heard false claims about the measles and COVID-19 vaccines, including that the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccines have been proven to cause autism in children (66%), that more people have died from the COVID-19 vaccines than the virus (46%), that mRNA vaccines can alter DNA (36%), or that measles vaccines are more dangerous than measles itself (29%).
• While many have heard of these myths, smaller shares are convinced they are true. Fewer than one in ten adults express ardent belief in each myth, while larger shares (between 31% and 44%) say each are “definitely false” and at least half fall in the “malleable middle,” saying each of these claims is either “probably true” or “probably false.”
• Adults who have a relationship with a trusted health care provider are less likely than those who don’t have such a relationship to believe or lean toward believing vaccine falsehoods. For instance, nearly half (46%) of adults who say they do not have a health care provider they trust to answer questions about their health say it is “probably” or “definitely true” that more people have died from COVID-19 vaccines than from the virus, which is nearly twice the share among those with a trusted...

Read Full Story: https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMitwFBVV95cUxNSFNVLVhXR0FjdFkxM3BHbzlt...