Reporters should understand that the way they cover vaccines and vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks can influence the behavior of people, either helping them understand that vaccines are safe and necessary, putting them on-the-fence about vaccines, or scarring them away from getting vaccinated and protected.
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The most basic answers to your questions about vaccines are that while vaccines aren’t perfect, they are safe and necessary and they do work well to protect us from vaccine-preventable disease.
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Alternative medicine is rarely right, and that can have life-threatening consequences when it leads folks to reject traditional treatments when they are really sick.
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The media’s role in promoting vaccine misinformation has a long history, with various individuals and organizations contributing to the spread of false claims about vaccines. From giving platforms to anti-vaccine celebrities to promoting pseudoscience, the media has played a significant role in fueling the anti-vaccine movement. This has led to public confusion and a lack of understanding about the importance of vaccination.
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