{"id":4039,"date":"2021-07-30T13:39:15","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T17:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/?p=4039"},"modified":"2021-10-08T12:27:45","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T16:27:45","slug":"how-to-fight-vaccine-misinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/2021\/07\/30\/how-to-fight-vaccine-misinformation\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Fight Vaccine Misinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Story by <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bostonia\/author\/andrew-thurston\/\"><strong>Andrew Thurston<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Just after Christmas, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpr.org\/pharmacist-arrested-trying-destroy-covid-19-vaccine-released-monday\">a Wisconsin pharmacist attempted to destroy 570 doses of a COVID-19 vaccine<\/a>, yanking precious vials from a storage refrigerator. According to multiple reports, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/01\/04\/us\/pharmacist-accused-of-tampering-with-vaccine-was-conspiracy-theorist-police-say.html\">he\u2019d become convinced it could alter human DNA<\/a>. It can\u2019t. Nor, as other false rumors have claimed, will it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayoclinichealthsystem.org\/hometown-health\/featured-topic\/covid-19-vaccine-myths-debunked\">allow the government to track you or fill your body with fetal tissue<\/a>\u2014but that hasn\u2019t stopped vaccine misinformation from spreading online, spooking people concerned about potential side effects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"is-style-default\">\u201cMisinformation is more impactful than the correction\u201d says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/profile\/michelle-amazeen\/\">Michelle A. Amazeen<\/a>, an associate professor of mass communication.<\/p>\n<p>For the past year, Amazeen and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/profile\/arunima-krishna\/\">Arunima Krishna<\/a>, an assistant professor of public relations, have explored the spread of vaccine misinformation and the efficacy of different efforts to halt it. Although their study started before COVID-19 tore across the United States\u2014and their research has focused on vaccines in general\u2014Amazeen says the coronavirus pandemic has \u201cmagnified how important the work is that we\u2019re doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the rest of this story on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/com\/articles\/how-to-fight-vaccine-misinformation\/\">BU Today.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Story by Andrew Thurston Just after Christmas, a Wisconsin pharmacist attempted to destroy 570 doses of a COVID-19 vaccine, yanking precious vials from a storage refrigerator. According to multiple reports, he\u2019d become convinced it could alter human DNA. It can\u2019t. Nor, as other false rumors have claimed, will it allow the government to track you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19557,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4039"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4039"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4060,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4039\/revisions\/4060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/crc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}