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Social norms and anti-vax beliefs
Our studies found that correcting misconceptions reduced parents’ beliefs in anti-vaccine conspiracy theories, write psychology researchers, Darel Cookson, Daniel Jolley, Rachel Povey and Robert Dempsey

OLDER people may be more vulnerable to Covid, but in Britain it’s the young that are now driving the pandemic.

Last month, school-age children in Britain were 15 times more likely than people over 80 to have the coronavirus.

Leaving young people unvaccinated partly explains why cases have been so high in this group. This is why many countries are now offering Covid jabs to children. 

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