Archiving notice

Since their introduction in early 2020, COVID-19 vaccines have saved at least 1.4 million lives in Europe alone. Worldwide, more than 12 billion doses of the vaccines have been administered as of March 2024, and between 14 and 20 million lives have been saved. In light of this success and the generally high vaccination uptake in most countries around the world, we have decided to discontinue updating of this wiki. The existing material may be of interest for archival reasons and will remain accessible, but not further updates will be undertaken. If you have any questions about the wiki or the Handbook, please contact the authors.

This project tracks behavioural science evidence and advice about COVID-19 vaccine uptake.

The COVID-19 Vaccine Communication Handbook

Translations:

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Summary for policy-makers:

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Wiki contents

Table of contents for the wiki, grouped by topic.

Behaviour

• The success of behavioural measures in controlling COVID-19
• Public attitudes towards COVID-19 vaccines
• Cultural differences in vaccine uptake
• Why freeriding is a disastrous strategy
• Changing Behaviour: Increasing COVID-19 vaccination uptake

Communication

• The importance of health care professionals
• Trust in scientists
• COVID-19 risk perception
• Successful strategic communication measures

Policy and COVID-19 Vaccines

• Equity in vaccine allocation
• The role of vaccination mandates
• Nudging: Flattening the curve of the infodemic

What are the facts?

• Facts about COVID-19
• Facts about COVID-19 vaccines
• COVID-19 and children
• COVID-19 and pregnancy
• Success of vaccines
• The COVID-19 vaccine development process
• Potential side effects of COVID-19 vaccines
• Muslim history and contributions to science (and why it matters)

Misinformation

• Debunking myths about vaccination
• Fallout from COVID-19 misinformation
• Common anti-vaccination misinformation
• COVID-19 conspiracy theories
• The politics of COVID-19 vaccination and misinformation
• Vaccine deniers
• Argument quality and fallacies

Vaccination roll-out across the world

Vaccination programmes have been rolled out in many countries. Our World in Data has a tool to track ongoing vaccine uptake in various countries.

Vaccine trackers are also available from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control and the Economist, showing vaccine uptake in various world regions.

Insights

Vaccination behaviour is a complex topic and many of the concepts involved are interlinked. The visualisation below gives an idea of the interconnectivity of higher and lower level mappings of the pages in this Wiki. You can use this visualisation to explore the different pages, or explore the Wiki contents in the list above.

Click on the white nodes to go to each of the Wiki pages

FAQs

Who is behind this project?

The vaccines project is run by SciBeh. Our contributors are a team of scientists and volunteers from many academic disciplines.

You can read more about all the project contributors here.

We document how the project came about and our process for continuing development here.

How can I contribute?

If you would like to contribute to this project, please contact us.

How can I give you feedback?

Please email us or click here for more ways to get in touch with us.

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_{This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 964728 (JITSUVAX).}

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