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The reluctance or refusal to accept COVID-19 vaccinations can be tackled by a five-pronged strategy to addressing the behavioral and socio-demographic factors behind vaccine hesitancy. Writing in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, a group of population health, demographic, epidemiology and behavioral scientists propose an approach focused on confidence, complacency, convenience, communication and context.
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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
Public Health England figures the true extent of deaths in Oxfordshire during Covid-19 crisis Photo: RADAR OXFORDSHIRE S death toll during the last year of the Covid-19 pandemic was hundreds higher than during previous years, latest figures reveal. That is according to Public Health England data that compares the number of deaths registered during the last year with how many were predicted based on previous mortality rates. The so-called excess deaths are considered a much better measure of the overall impact of Covid-19 than simply looking at mortality directly linked to the virus. This is because they capture deaths that may have been indirectly caused by the crisis, and are not affected by changes in the level of testing.