“…News of the child's death prompted a surge of people seeking H1N1 immunization just as vaccine clinics were opening, unfortunately coinciding with a last-minute reduction in the amount of vaccine initially available. Studies have found that news coverage of pH1N1 heavily promoted 'confusion' around vaccine roll-out, and was predominantly negative, with stories focusing on line-ups, access issues, inefficiencies, chaos at clinics, queue jumping, and people wanting vaccines in the face of shortages (Laing 2011;Quigley, Macdonald, and Quigley 2016). Similarly, research on public perceptions of news coverage of pH1N1 found that many Canadians believed that news organizations had acted irresponsibly by sensationalizing pandemic coverage and confusing people (Henrich and Holmes 2011;Taha, Matheson, and Anisman 2013;Laing 2011;).…”