What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - An Antivax Dog Whistle Goes Viral
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🗓️ 20 January 2023
⏱️ 30 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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| 0:34.6 | Welcome back to Cincinnati, where medical personnel have been working on Bill Safety, |
| 0:39.3 | Demar Hamlin for the last nine minutes. |
| 0:42.3 | Hamlin made a hit. |
| 0:43.4 | He got up, took a couple of steps and then just fell to the ground. |
| 0:47.4 | When Demar Hamlin suffered a cardiac arrest and collapsed on the field during an NFL game three weeks ago, |
| 0:53.7 | epidemiologist Caitlin Jettelina quickly turned on her TV. |
| 0:58.1 | Partly because she's a football fan and she was worried, |
| 1:01.4 | but partly because she knew what was coming next. |
| 1:05.1 | A lot of Caitlin's work right now is focused on COVID misinformation. |
| 1:09.0 | And lately, that's meant fighting the idea that COVID vaccines are linked to sudden deaths among young people. |
| 1:15.3 | How quickly did you realize after that happened? |
| 1:19.6 | That things were going to start |
| 1:22.8 | popping up on social media about what had happened to him. |
| 1:26.0 | I knew right away. |
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