pro-vaccine

See also: provaccine

English

Alternative forms

• provaccine

Etymology

From pro- +‎ vaccine.

Adjective

pro-vaccine (not comparable)

1. Supporting vaccines and vaccination.

   Synonyms: pro-vaccination, (informal) pro-vax

   Antonym: anti-vaccine

   • 2016, Eve Dubé, Noni E. MacDonald, “Vaccine Acceptance”, in Barry R. Bloom, Paul-Henri Lambert, editors, The Vaccine Book, 2nd edition, London: Academic Press, →ISBN, page 517:

     The study also showed that the interventions did reinforce the decision of the parents who were already intending to vaccinate, that is, promoted resiliency among provaccine parents.³³

   • 2019 December 10, Tess Lanzarotta, “How to beat anti-vaxxers at their own game”, in The Washington Post‎^[1]:

     Pro-vaccine advertisements are more likely than anti-vaccine advertisements to be removed from Facebook, often because they fail to meet the requirements for “political” advertising. This probably occurs because pro-vaccine advertisers believe their messages convey scientific truth, rather than a political position.

   • 2020 May 13, Kevin Roose, “Get Ready for a Vaccine Information War”, in The New York Times‎^[2]:

     The study, which mapped the vaccine conversation on Facebook during the 2019 measles outbreak, found that there were nearly three times as many active anti-vaccination communities as pro-vaccination communities. In addition, they found that while pro-vaccine pages tended to have more followers, anti-vaccine pages were faster-growing.