Warren CornwallScience’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center.Nearly half a year later, scientists around the world are rushing to create a COVID-19 vaccine.
An approved product is still months, if not years, away and public health agencies have not yet mounted campaigns to promote it.
But health communication experts say they need to start to lay the groundwork for acceptance now, because the flood of misinformation from antivaccine activists has surged.Such activists have “kicked into overdrive,” says Neil Johnson, a physicist at George Washington University who studies the dynamics of antivaccine groups on social networks.