{"id":1741,"date":"2022-12-12T09:12:10","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T15:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=1741"},"modified":"2022-12-13T11:21:04","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T17:21:04","slug":"its-still-worth-fighting-anti-covid-vaccine-misinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2022\/12\/12\/its-still-worth-fighting-anti-covid-vaccine-misinformation\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Still Worth Fighting Anti-Covid Vaccine Misinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/opinion\/articles\/2022-12-11\/covid-vaccines-and-boosters-are-still-hampered-by-misinformation\">Bloomberg<\/a>) Medical misinformation has never contributed to as many deaths as in the last 18 months.\u00a0Recently released statistics\u00a0show thousands of \u201cexcess\u201d deaths concentrated among the US states and counties with the lowest uptake of Covid-19 vaccines \u2014\u00a0though the vaccines were free and available to everyone.\u00a0 Uptake has been suppressed in those areas because a significant chunk of the public has remained intensely skeptical of the Covid vaccines \u2014 especially those using mRNA technology, which has been in development for decades but never used until now. Among the rumors: that the vaccines change your DNA; cause infertility; or even kill you. None of these are based in fact.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Medical misinformation has never contributed to as many deaths as in the last 18 months.\u00a0Recently released statistics\u00a0show thousands of \u201cexcess\u201d deaths concentrated among the US states and counties with the lowest uptake of Covid-19 vaccines \u2014\u00a0though the vaccines were free and available to everyone.\u00a0 Uptake has been suppressed in those areas because a significant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misinformation-disinformation-and-conspiracy-theories"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1742,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741\/revisions\/1742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}