Building trust in safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines
Convincing millions to get vaccinated will take more than data, facts and figures January 21, 2021 • By Sabin Russell / Fred Hutch News Service Anthony Jackson, security coordinator for Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, receives a dose of the new Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on Jan. 19, 2021, at a new vaccine clinic set up on the Fred Hutch campus. Photo by Robert Hood / Fred Hutch News Service
On the morning of Dec. 29, as a historic and harrowing year was drawing to a close, Dr. Steven Pergam bared his left shoulder to receive his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
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At the end of 2020, critics of government-imposed lockdowns on U.S. businesses and schools to prevent the spread of COVID-19 circulated posts alleging a new study found people who tested positive for the virus but did not show symptoms were not contagious.