Historical Resistance to Vaccine Mandates and Modern Vaccine Hesitancy Associated with MAHA Movement
42Framing Analysis
Documented events include 19th-century riots in England against mandatory smallpox vaccination and the 1894 founding of the Anti-Compulsory Vaccination League of Brooklyn. Researchers apply the term vaccine hesitancy to individuals who refuse or delay vaccines, and this pattern is linked to the Make America Healthy Again movement. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. serves as Health and Human Services Secretary and is identified as the movement's standard-bearer.