Give It Your Best Shot: Reaching the Vaccine-Hesitant Young. Nearly 25 percent of young adults are hesitant about the COVID-19 vaccination, putting them at risk for severe disease.
How can public health officials reach adolescents and young adults?
What messages in social media and elsewhere resonate with them?
How are journalists reaching younger audiences?
For this online event, the Pulitzer Center and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health convene journalists from the CNN/BBC documentary Race for the Vaccine and public health experts to discuss opportunities and pitfalls in this pandemic communication challenge.
Speakers include:
Medical journalist Caleb Hellerman, director of Race for the Vaccine.
Award-winning filmmaker Janet Tobias, executive producer of Race for the Vaccine.
Johns Hopkins experts:
Rupali Limaye, director of Behavioral and Implementation Science, International Vaccine Access Center
Nick Moran, associate director of Audience Development, Johns H
Hank Aaron Still Stands Alone
His career and example stand in drastic contrast to the lesser men who were not inducted into baseballâs Hall of Fame just after Aaronâs death.
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Baseball Hall of Famer Hank Aaron (1934â2021) listens to tributes during a celebration of his 75th birthday, February 5, 2009, in Atlanta.
It felt right that just a few days after Hank Aaron died, the voters for the Baseball Hall of Fame Tuesday refused to induct superstars Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, and Curt Schilling.
Bonds was the player who broke Hank Aaronâs home-run record, but under the suspicion of using performance-enhancing drugs. Clemens was suspected of using them as well to amass his pitching record. Schilling stained his strikeout titles by repeatedly pitching insults at Muslims and transgender people, and metaphorically throwing beanballs of ignorant bombast at Black athletes and Black culture.