What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - An Antivax Dog Whistle Goes Viral
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🗓️ 11 December 2016
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
The idea that COVID-19 vaccines are linked to sudden deaths among young people has no scientific support, but the theory nevertheless has a lot of traction on social media.
How can public health officials educate the public—especially on subject like vaccines, where their effectiveness renders them effectively invisible?
Guest: Katelyn Jetelina, epidemiologist and data scientist
Host: Lizzie O’Leary
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| 0:40.7 | a couple of steps and then just fell to the ground. |
| 0:44.1 | When DeMar Hamlin suffered a cardiac arrest and collapsed on the field during an NFL game |
| 0:48.7 | three weeks ago, epidemiologist Caitlin Jettolina quickly turned on her TV, partly because she's a football fan and she was worried, |
| 0:58.0 | but partly because she knew what was coming next. |
| 1:01.6 | A lot of Caitlin's work right now is focused on COVID |
| 1:04.2 | misinformation and lately that's meant fighting the idea that COVID vaccines are |
| 1:09.0 | linked to sudden deaths among young people. How quickly did you realize after that happened that things |
| 1:18.0 | were going to start popping up on social media about what had happened to him. |
| 1:22.6 | I knew right away. |
| 1:23.8 | I mean, this has been a constant theme throughout the pandemic, |
| 1:28.2 | but so much more recently in the past month or two. |
| 1:32.6 | One of my colleagues husbands died over at the World Cup |
| 1:37.1 | about a week before this incident. |
| 1:40.6 | And so it was on the top of my mind and obviously on the top of many |
| 1:45.7 | disinformation campaigns as well. |
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