Dr. Adam Brown: Fight disinformation by reaching out to unvaccinated
For the past 18 months, as chair of the COVID-19 Task Force at Envision Healthcare — a national medical group that cares for 32 million patients a year — I have been focused on identifying strategies to protect the public. I have witnessed this pandemic through many lenses and spoken with friends, family members and people in my community about their perceptions of COVID-19. What has become increasingly clear is that one of the greatest threats to the health of our patients and our communities is a growing vaccine disinformation campaign. Despite the medical achievement of highly effective vaccines, the true benefits of widespread vaccination will not be realized until everyone trusts the science.
The COVID-19 vaccine has been somewhat of a medical miracle, protecting more than 95 percent of the U.S. population that has been fully vaccinated against the deadly virus, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). But more than eight months after the vaccine has been widely available in the U.S., and with more than 200 million doses given, the CDC reports that less than 60 percent of the U.S. population has been fully vaccinated. “Does the vaccine cause infertility? Does COVID-19 affect children? Do I need the vaccine if I previously had COVID-19?” These are all questions I hear regularly. Even members of my own family have shared their concerns with me about- read the full article here.
