Americans who regularly get their news from right-wing media outlets are more than twice as likely to be hesitant about getting vaccines, according to a new Johns Hopkins University survey.
The findings reinforce previous research linking a conservative political outlook to vaccine hesitancy — although the majority of the 2,970 U.S. adults in the latest survey still believe the preventive benefits of the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine outweigh the risks of infection, and just one in six said they were hesitant about it.
