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Texas launches multimillion dollar campaign to combat vaccine hesitancy Karen Brooks Harper and Marissa Martinez, Texas Tribune Feb. 16, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail FILE -- A 15-year-old participating in Moderna’s teen COVID-19 vaccine trial receives a shot in Houston of Feb. 5, 2021. Pfizer and Moderna are testing their vaccines on children 12 and older and hope to have results by the summer. (Brandon Thibodeaux/The New York Times)BRANDON THIBODEAUX, STR / NYT Snappy music opens the 15-second...

An issue of Time magazine on a newsstand in 2017. (AP Photo / Mark Lennihan) (CN) — Trust in the news media is near its all-time low, and many people assume that this is simply a byproduct of the hyperpartisan hysteria of the Trump era. Problematic for this theory, though, is that it was in 2015 when the number of people who say they have at least a fair amount of trust in the press hit bottom. The number has been rising since then, according to Gallup Inc., which has been polling people’s ...

Written by Ashley Welch on February 2, 2021 — Fact checked by Dana K. Cassell Vaccine-hesitant groups are exploiting the deaths of people who died of old age or underlying health conditions after receiving the COVID-19 shot to undermine trust in the vaccines. Westend61/Getty Images Scientists say some deaths will occur during the COVID-19 vaccination rollout, but these deaths would have happened for other reasons and are unrelated to the vaccine. The newness of the virus and uncertainty abou...

In Our View: To fight virus, Americans must get vaccine The Columbian Share: In order to slow the spread of coronavirus, Americans need to roll up their sleeves — and not just figuratively. Diligence regarding the wearing of masks and social distancing remains essential for stemming the virus. Now, we can add receiving a vaccination as soon as possible to the list of disease-fighting actions. Frontline health care workers have started receiving inoculations against COVID-19, fo...

Misinformation fuels fears about COVID-19 vaccine December 18, 2020 5:43 PM Ariana Lake Updated: SPOKANE, Wash.– Just as the vaccine rolls out, public health experts are dealing with another kind of viral attack. This one is online. At the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public, Jevin West studies misinformation and disinformation. He’s been closely monitoring how false information is impacting the pandemic and efforts to vaccinate the public. ...

Missouri’s first COVID vaccine doses are on the way. How do you get people to take them? By Tessa Weinberg A month later, in a revised version of the report, the paragraph was gone.  Instead, the updated plan featured a new section that targeted how the state would combat misinformation, complete with a website promising a page dedicated to “myth busters.” The revisions came after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s feedback was incorporated, scaling the state’s original...

By Tessa Weinberg Missouri Independent Nestled in the pages of Missouri’s initial plan for how to distribute the coronavirus vaccine was a paragraph touting that “Missouri’s population understands the importance of receiving a COVID-19 vaccine.” A month later, in a revised version of the report, the paragraph was gone.  Instead, the updated plan featured a new section that targeted how the state would combat misinformation, complete with a website promising a page dedicated to “myth ...

It was a tough year for social media. But, Kate Starbird says, it can still be a force for positive communication.

False claims about COVID-19 vaccines are spreading widely on social media, researchers warn. They could undermine public health efforts to curb the pandemic.

The Perfect Storm: How Vaccine Misinformation Spread To The Mainstream at 3:00 am NPR Kolina Koltai first heard about the coronavirus back in January, but not from newspapers or TV. Instead, she read about it in anti-vaccination groups on Facebook. "They were posting stories from China like, Hey, heres this mysterious illness, or Heres this something that seems to be spreading," she said. While few others in the U.S. were talking about the virus back then, people opposed to v...