Vaccine companies want to use text messages advertise immunizations

‘The vaccine industry is toying around with the idea of nagging parents via text messages to get their children vaccinated. A new study published in the journal Pediatrics evaluated the effectiveness of texting parents with reminders about flu shots, revealing that many parents respond favorably by dragging their kids down to the clinic to get jabbed.

Since apparently not enough parents are voluntarily taking their children to get first- and second-dose flu shots in accordance with government-recommended guidelines, researchers from Columbia University’s Medical Center and Mailman School of Public Health decided to conjure up new ways to manipulate and persuade more of them to comply with official vaccine recommendations.’

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