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Dr. Malia Jones of University of Wisconsin-Madison says herd immunity is not a “magic light switch” to end the pandemic.
“Herd immunity” is a term that is often thrown around to indicate a point where the United States would have enough people vaccinated or otherwise immune to COVID-19 that we could all go back to some semblance of pre-pandemic normalcy. The actual threshold for herd immunity is under debate among public health experts.
“It’s not something that’s easy to forecast for any disease until we’ve actually reached it and then started to lose it.” Dr. Malia Jones, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Speaker: Malia Jones, associate scientist at the Applied Population Lab
Description: Explore the origins in March 2020 of Dear Pandemic, a group of scientists and health care workers to provide curated, comprehensive, and timely information about COVID-19 on social media. Track how the composition, collaborations and communications of Dear Pandemic have evolved over the past 14 months as the covid pandemic has spread, as control measures have evolved, as the disease has become politicized, and as vaccines have come to the fore. Get insights into the coming phase of “Pandexit” as covid dwindles and many angles of life return to near-normal.
Bio: Malia Jones is an associate scientist at the Applied Population Lab at UW-Madison and is co-founder and editor-in-chief of “Dear Pandemic.” She is a social epidemiologist with expertise in GIS methods. Her research focuses on the social and spatial determinants of health at the population level. She is especially
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In a novel effort to combat COVID-19 misinformation, a group of women researchers, including nurse scientists from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing (Penn Nursing), launched the Dear Pandemic social media campaign in March 2020. It delivers curated, comprehensive, and timely information about the COVID-19 pandemic in a question-and-answer format. Complex topics such as COVID-19 aerosol transmission, risk reduction strategies to avoid infection, and excess mortality are explained in common language and shared widely.
Now with more than 100,000 followers and accounts on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, the campaign has an international and multilingual impact offering important public health insight via social media. An article in the journal
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