Dr. Lori Handy
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“What we actually find is that individuals don't bucket as nicely as we want because the factors that play into either having questions or having hesitancy about vaccines are really complex and are coming together as this combination of social factors, religious factors, access factors and who's on their Instagram feed,”
Dr. Lori Handy · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-21
Dr. Lori Handy discusses the complex and overlapping factors that influence vaccine hesitancy.
“makes parents less and less likely to vaccinate their child because they are seeing individuals in a position of authority who do not endorse it,”
Dr. Lori Handy · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-21
Dr. Lori Handy explains how skepticism voiced by authority figures influences parents against vaccinating.
“We're in a different period with a different risk profile that people need to understand for their child,”
Dr. Lori Handy · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-21
Dr. Lori Handy discusses how changing risk profiles require parents to re-evaluate vaccine decisions.
“Let's revisit this question that parents may have because times have changed, and we need to really keep their child safe.”
Dr. Lori Handy · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-21
Dr. Lori Handy encourages revisiting parental questions about vaccines to keep children safe.
“All of a sudden, vaccine science has become a political issue or a partisan issue in a way that we've never seen before, and it is really, really challenging to be part of the American public and not know which message to trust because we are seeing different messages come out from the government, from our healthcare providers, from different health authorities, and people really have to then decide,”
Dr. Lori Handy · said date not stated · reported 2026-08-21
Dr. Lori Handy reflects on the challenges the public faces when vaccine science becomes politicized.