chilling effect

Paired with updated guidelines from the CDC that drop recommendations for healthy pregnant women and kids to routinely get vaccinated, these changes from the federal government could have a chilling effect that leads fewer people to get vaccinated.

And when it finally did in March, it had a chilling effect.

“We’re concerned about a possible chilling effect any settlement might have on investigative and political journalism. It would also send a message that politically motivated lawsuits can succeed, especially when paired with regulatory threats.”

There is, of course, the desired and planned chilling effect.

This has had a chilling effect.