Vaccination beliefs are reinforced in online forums, study finds

Attitudes and beliefs about influenza vaccination are unlikely to change when discussed in online forums, found a new study from researchers at the University of Waterloo.

To study the role that online discussion and web forums play in the vaccination decision-making process, the researchers examined 33 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation articles reporting on the influenza vaccine between September 2015 and October 2016, analyzing over 2,000 user-generated comments.