Doug Ford calls measles vaccine a ‘no-brainer.’ Why more parents have stopped listening

Public confidence in vaccines has dipped since COVID’s first surges, the proportion of parents “really against” routine childhood immunizations has grown and one third of Canadians believe the discredited claim that the measles vaccine causes autism, surveys show. That percolating pushback is contributing to gaps in immunization coverage: only seven out of 10 kids aged seven in Ontario were reported to be fully immunized against measles in the 2023-24 school year. Rates plummet