Professor Sarah Gilbert, who led the team that developed the Oxford Astrazeneca vaccine against Covid-19, has recently made this comment about different attitudes towards vaccines: I don’t understand anti-vaxxers. Why should anyone be ideologically opposed to a safe and cost-effective public health measure that saves millions of lives and stops people from having to live… Continue reading From roast dinners to seatbelts: Metaphors to address Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy – by Elena Semino
Author: Elena Semino
The Quo VaDis project applies the latest techniques in corpus-based discourse analysis to discussions about vaccinations in UK national press reports, UK Parliamentary debates, Twitter, Reddit, and Mumsnet. We aim to inform public health campaigns about vaccinations through a better understanding of pro- and anti-vaccination views.