'Misinformation has changed everything:' How one local health department is restoring trust in vaccines

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'Misinformation has changed everything:' How one local health department is restoring trust in vaccines
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“We have to own the fact that our communication missteps created the environment where disinformation flourished,” Brian Castrucci of the de Beaumont Foundation said. Story by laurenmsausser of KHNews:

, director of public health at the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control.

, CEO of the de Beaumont Foundation, a charitable group focused on strengthening public health. “We have to own the fact that our communication missteps created the environment where disinformation flourished.” “She just kind of educated me on what the shot was really about,” Baker said. “She cleared up some things for me.”Baker signed up for her first Covid shot in May 2021, around the same time the Health Department in Oklahoma City noticed the number of vaccine shots administered daily was starting to decline.

Other factors are most likely at play that have helped bolster Oklahoma City’s vaccination numbers. In the same survey of Oklahoma City adults, some people who had recently been vaccinated said that family members or church leaders urged them to get the vaccine or that they knew someone who had died from Covid. One person said money was the motivation, having received $900 from work to get the vaccine.

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