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 111-page Oct. 11 report down to 105 pages when it was revised Nov. 11.
Lisa Cox, a spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Senior Services, said the paragraph was removed, “because we did not have data to fully support the statement.”
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 busters.”
The revisions came after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s feedback was incorporated.
Lisa Cox, a spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Senior Services, said the paragraph was removed “because we did not have data to fully support the statement.”
December 10, 2020
After years of a hands-off approach to anti-vaccination content, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter are looking to reduce false info on COVID vaccines.
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Health and misinformation experts tell Newsy they anticipate a new wave of misinformation with upcoming COVID-19 vaccine rollouts. There s already mistrust about this because of the perception of, you know, rushing things, trying to get things out. And not knowing really who to trust in terms of information, said Jason Shepherd, associate professor of neurobiology and anatomy at the University of Utah. Facebook has really been a hub for a lot of vaccine-opposed and anti-vaccine-related communities, particularly because of the use of private groups, said Kolina Koltai, a post-doctoral scholar at the University of Washington s Center for an Informed Public. The uniqueness being able to facilitate a certain community, to be able to talk to people in a private space is what really lent Faceboo
December 11, 2020
Jennifer Duckworth
This is the fifth in a series of articles highlighting new faculty members from each college at Washington State University.
By Todd Mordhorst, Office of the Provost
Teaching underserved high school students in Indianapolis, Indiana sparked a passion that brought Jennifer Duckworth to the Evergreen State.
After a postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of Washington’s Center for the Studies of Health and Risk Behaviors, she is back teaching, while finding ways to make a difference for underserved populations throughout Washington.
Duckworth is an assistant professor in the College of Agricultural, Human and Natural Resource Sciences. She’s one of three new members of the Department of Human Development and is eager to plug into WSU’s extension network and partner with colleagues in the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine and elsewhere in prevention science in which she specializes.
False claims about COVID-19 vaccines are spreading widely on social media, researchers warn. They could undermine public health efforts to curb the pandemic.