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Video: Current rates of vaccine hesitancy in the US could mean a long road to normalcy

  • Written by Matt Motta, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Oklahoma State University
imageCurrent rates of vaccine hesitancy could jeopardize America's efforts to achieve herd immunity.Nordroden / Getty Images

Poltical scientist Matt Motta studies the social and political determinants of anti-science attitudes. In this Q&A, he answers questions about the current levels of vaccine hesitancy in the U.S. and how that might affect the...

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