Michelle DesRosiers is a non-binary parent and IT consultant in Kitchener, Ont., with hair that?s dyed metallic red at the top and shaved at the sides. When they were pregnant with their second child during the H1N1 pandemic, both their family doctor and obstetrician told them, ?Basically, you would be crazy not to get the [H1N1] vaccine,? according to DesRosiers. The discussions made them feel ?almost on a personal level like there?s something wrong with me to even question it.? Feeling they couldn?t discuss it with their doctors, DesRosiers turned to Google and came across anti-vaccine info that ?seemed science-based.? From then on, DesRosiers stopped vaccinating their children. Over the next 10 years, they learned that other parents and friends would judge their vaccination decisions, and they stopped talking about it. Now, with experts saying we might have to vaccinate as much as 90 per cent of the population to reach herd immunity, health advocates are determined not to make the same mistakes DesRosiers? doctors made. Compared to countries around the globe, Canada has above-average rates of confidence in vaccines, which is part of the reason we?re now a world leader in single doses. And the number of hesitant Canadians has been trending downward since March, when 36 per cent were either unwilling or unsure. Still, there is cause for concern. The results of a June poll by the Angus Reid Institute say nine per cent of Canadians won?t get a vaccine, and seven per cent eit...