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Vaccines in the News 2019–2026: article-level dataset and coverage tables
A dataset of vaccine news from a global news index, January 2019 – July 2026, built with the Prism News API (historical and real-time news, https://radar-api.fliarbi.com/news). Every row is one news article about vaccines or vaccination, with its date, location, tone, editorial priority, themes and the organisations it names, plus a link that returns the full article through the API.
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Key findings
In a global news index, articles about vaccines and vaccination made up 333.85 of every 10,000 news articles in 2021, 18.15 times their share in 2019 (18.39 per 10,000), the highest annual share between 2019 and 2025.
Basis: Annual vaccine articles divided by all articles in the index for the same year (576,937 of 17,281,220 articles in 2021).
March 2021 was the month in which vaccines took their largest share of global news between January 2019 and July 2026, at 407.51 articles per 10,000 news articles, 22.2 times the 2019 annual average.
Basis: Monthly vaccine articles per 10,000 news articles, every month from January 2019 to July 2026.
By 2025 news coverage of vaccines had fallen to 27.48 articles per 10,000 news articles, 91.8% below its 2021 share but still 1.49 times its 2019 share, and 1.27 times the 2024 share of 21.6.
Basis: Annual vaccine articles per 10,000 articles in the index, 2019–2025.
Between January 2023 and July 2026, model-assigned priority labels placed 81.3% of vaccine articles at critical priority (7 or higher on a 1–9 scale), 1.91 times the 42.6% share for all news, while the negative share of tone-labelled vaccine articles (36.8%) was close to that of all news (33.6%).
Basis: Top priority and sentiment labels per article; critical = priority ≥ 7; 99.8% of sampled articles carry a tone label.
Vaccine hesitancy and public perception appeared in 8.69% of themed vaccine news articles between January 2023 and July 2026, vaccine mandates and policy debates in 4.97%, and countering vaccine myths and misinformation in 4.2%.
Basis: Theme labels assigned to each article; shares of articles carrying any theme.
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Coverage by country
Primary location of located articles, January 2023 – July 2026. Lift = the country's share of this topic's news ÷ its share of all located news (above 1 = over-covered).
| Country | Articles | Share | Lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 41,388 | 54.01% | 1.12 |
| India | 6,703 | 8.75% | 0.66 |
| United Kingdom | 4,311 | 5.63% | 0.96 |
| Brazil | 1,895 | 2.47% | 2.86 |
| China | 1,877 | 2.45% | 0.93 |
| Australia | 1,800 | 2.35% | 1.1 |
| Canada | 1,750 | 2.28% | 1.06 |
| Nigeria | 1,330 | 1.74% | 1.27 |
| France | 819 | 1.07% | 0.54 |
| Germany | 785 | 1.02% | 0.87 |
| New Zealand | 698 | 0.91% | 1.41 |
| Singapore | 615 | 0.8% | 0.9 |
| Ghana | 536 | 0.7% | 1.45 |
| Japan | 503 | 0.66% | 0.62 |
| Pakistan | 449 | 0.59% | 1.29 |
Use the API
This dataset was built with the Prism News API, which serves historical and real-time news. Install the command-line client, log in with an API key, and query the topic yourself:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fliarbi/prism-news-api/main/scripts/install.sh | bash
prism-news login
prism-news trends "vaccine" --granularity monthly --tableCite
Fliar BI. Vaccines in the News 2019–2026: article-level dataset and coverage tables. January 2019 – July 2026. https://fliarbi.github.io/news-datasets/vaccine/