antivaxxer

American  

[an-tee-vak-ser, an-tahy-] / ˌæn tiˈvæk sər, ˌæn taɪ- /

Or antivaxer or anti-vaxxer

noun

Informal.

1. a person who distrusts or is against vaccination, often someone who is vocally opposed to vaccines.

   Our doctors are adamant that the antivaxxers overstate the risks of vaccine use, and that they scoff at the risks of disease.

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Etymology

Origin of antivaxxer

First recorded in 2000–05; antivax + -er ¹

Example Sentences

When her sister began commenting on Sorry Antivaxxer, the site took the comments down, but later put them back online.

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Alexis Haug believes that one of her stepmother’s “so-called friends” had made screen images of her father’s posts and sent them to Sorry Antivaxxer.

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A website called Sorry Antivaxxer, which catalogues the covid-19 deaths of people who had publicly posted their rejection of the vaccine, had found out about Haug’s father, Ron Munoz.

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Commenters from Sorry Antivaxxer then posted images from the Facebook profile of Munoz’s widow and also left comments about vaccination on her page.

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“That’s not something you see from an antivaxxer,” said David Broniatowski, an engineer at George Washington University who led the research published in the American Journal of Public Health.

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