Vaccine Hesitancy to Vaccine Hope: Comparison of MR Vaccine and COVID Vaccine Trends in India

Abstract

Social media played a major role during the distress in the era of Web 3.0 technologies. The use of social media for relief and rescue operations is common nowadays. But the Web 3.0 and its technologies have made the situation worse sometimes, especially in the healthcare sector. The measles-rubella (MR) vaccine campaign in India had a huge setback due to the social media. The World Health Organization (WHO) has observed that the misinformation in social media is one of the ten reasons for vaccine hesitancy. In the COVID-19 situation, the misinformation has increased tremendously but at the same time people were expecting a vaccine. The vaccine hesitancy depends on the severity of the cause of the disease and the cure of the disease. There were trends of vaccination hesitancy during the MR vaccination campaign and that has changed to vaccine hope during the COVID-19 in the social media. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.