Our guests are thinking about the best approach to convince the holdouts and correct the record about vaccines, including those available to protect against the worst effects of COVID-19 and the Delta variant.ĭr. Certainly, many who've held off getting a COVID shot think they have good reason, but can they be moved to protect themselves when there's so much bad information about vaccines online? And are there ways we can address social media accounts that spread misinformation? The vaccine debate is a matter of life and death. Today, fighting the COVID-19 virus while battling bad information about vaccines, and whether vaccine endorsements from infected critics now struggling to speak from their hospital beds will be enough to convince others to get vaccinated. With each episode, we explore what health departments are doing to tackle the most pressing public health issues facing our states and territories. Welcome to Public Health Review, a podcast brought to you by the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials. In the middle of this urgent mass immunization campaign, we're also trying to figure out how we as a society empower of community organizations and individuals, non-health professionals, to get out there and give them the good information and say things in their own way. But what about in terms of increasing our scientific literacy so that, when we have those treatments, we can get people to use them? We sometimes think about pandemic preparation as having enough masks, gloves, vaccines, and beds on hand. On this episode: the dangers of the vaccine misinformation and what, if anything, public health teams can do about it.
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