Across the country, health officials have been trying to combat misinformation and restore trust within their communities these past few years, a period when many people haven’t put full faith in their state and local health departments.
, 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.” “The good guys need to be just as well organized as those who seek to do harm to the nation,” he said. “One would think we would learn from this.”published in October by the Pew Research Center found 57% of U.S. adults believe “false and misleading information about the coronavirus and vaccines has contributed“I was leery like everyone else,” said Davie Baker, 61, an Oklahoma City woman who owns a business that sells window treatments.
“People don’t trust like they used to,” Maytubby said. “They want to make up their own minds and make their own decisions.”Maytubby thinks the “Choose Today!” campaign worked. A survey of 502 adults in Oklahoma City conducted during the first half of 2022 found fewer than 20% of respondents reacted negatively or very negatively to a sample of “Choose Today!” advertisements. And an estimatedhave received at least one dose of a Covid vaccine — a rate higher than the state average of about 73%.