{"id":351,"date":"2022-09-22T09:18:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T14:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=351"},"modified":"2022-12-13T11:23:04","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T17:23:04","slug":"im-deeply-concerned-francis-collins-on-trust-in-science-how-covid-communications-failed-and-his-current-obsession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2022\/09\/22\/im-deeply-concerned-francis-collins-on-trust-in-science-how-covid-communications-failed-and-his-current-obsession\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019m deeply concerned\u2019: Francis Collins on trust in science, how Covid communications failed, and his current obsession"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2022\/09\/19\/francis-collins-trust-science-covid-communication-failures\/\">Stat<\/a> &#8211; Former NIH director and current White House science adviser Francis Collins told a group of journalists late last week about his passion for both the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2022\/02\/02\/biden-once-pledged-to-cure-cancer-his-new-approach-is-far-more-modest\/\">Cancer Moonshot<\/a>\u00a0and the new biomedical research agency known as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2022\/09\/12\/renee-wegrzyn-former-government-scientist-appointed-first-arpa-h-leader\/\">ARPA-H<\/a>. But he also revealed his pain at seeing people spurn mRNA Covid vaccines developed with breathtaking speed and lamented that he and other health officials failed to communicate the ever-changing science behind Covid recommendations.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stat &#8211; Former NIH director and current White House science adviser Francis Collins told a group of journalists late last week about his passion for both the\u00a0Cancer Moonshot\u00a0and the new biomedical research agency known as\u00a0ARPA-H. But he also revealed his pain at seeing people spurn mRNA Covid vaccines developed with breathtaking speed and lamented that [&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-351","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\/351","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=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":352,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions\/352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}