Stuck: How Vaccine Rumors Start—and Why They Don't Go Away

COVID-19 changed everything, but also, in many ways, it changed very little. COVID-19 amplified the dilemmas we collectively faced and the fractures we already had. To those who were not thinking about rising rates of vaccine hesitancy before the pandemic, it may appear that COVID newly politicized science and created vaccine hesitancy. Yet, as anthropologist Heidi Larson shows, vaccine hesitancy and vaccine refusal are as old as vaccines themselves. In Stuck: How Vaccine Rumors Start—and Why They Don't Go Away, Larson—a professor of anthropology, risk, and decision science, and the founding director of the Vaccine Confidence Project, a research center focused on perceptions of vaccines around the…