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Semino, E., Coltman-Patel, T., Dance, W., Demjén, Z., Gleave, R. and Mackey, A. (2025) ‘It’s a shot, not a vaccine like MMR’: A new type of vaccine-specific scepticism on Twitter during the COVID-19 pandemic, Vaccine X. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvacx.2025.100620
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