US EditionMost Canadians still confident in vaccines, but hesitancy has increased, poll says
A Leger Healthcare poll shows 74% of Canadian adults trust vaccines despite rising hesitancy driven by safety concerns, misinformation, and mistrust in institutions.
- On Tuesday, Leger Healthcare's poll found about 74 per cent of Canadian adults are confident in vaccines, with 42 per cent 'very confident' and 32 per cent 'somewhat confident'.
- Health-Care providers told Leger Healthcare that safety worries, social-media misinformation and mistrust fuel hesitancy, while Melicent Lavers-Sailly said, `Information over the last five years about vaccines has become more fragmented` and about six million Canadians lack a family doctor.
- Survey data indicate Leger Healthcare's provider survey of 300 and margin of error 2.50%, with public respondents ranking effectiveness, severity, safety, and noting MMR vaccine comfort levels and COVID-19/flu hesitancy.
- Public-Health warnings note that Dr. Zainab Abdurrahman said, `Given the recent measles outbreaks, it shows that even a small drop in MMR confidence is a huge concern`.
- Amid fragmented messaging, experts say `Information over the last five years about vaccines has become more fragmented`, said Lavers-Sailly, while younger adults report confidence drops and trust family doctors, public-health sites or social media influencers differently.
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However, three out of four Canadians still trust them, according to a new Léger poll.
The latest poll shows that nearly three-quarters of Canadian adults still have confidence in vaccines, but hesitancy about vaccines has increased over the past five years.
TORONTO — About three-quarters of Canadian adults still trust vaccines, according to a new survey, but this confidence has been somewhat eroded over the past five years. During the Léger Division's health research probe, 74% of respondents said they were "very confident" (42%) or "rather confident" (32%) about vaccine safety and efficacy. However, about one-quarter of respondents reported that their confidence level has declined since 2019. Conf…
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