When researchers asked Australian parents whether they had heard anything recently about childhood vaccination that worried them, one in seven (14%) said yes. They reported hearing misinformation including a debunked link between childhood immunisation and autism, as well as disparaging comments about vaccines made by Donald Trump, the US president, leading researchers to suspect that many messages coming out of the US were cutting through. Amid this noise, some parents concluded that if childhood vaccination “was 100% safe, there wouldn’t be all this contradictory information circulating”, said Dr Jess Kaufman, the National Vaccination Insights project lead researcher. It in part
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