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The debate about sound and evidence-based science communication, effective in engaging the public and countering mis- and disinformation, was already quite lively long before the Covid‑19 pandemic hit. The coronavirus outbreak has caused a high level of uncertainty in the public health sphere and enabled a flow of inaccurate news and rumours about different aspects of the crisis: the ‘infodemic’. The European Science-Media Hub (ESMH) sees this as both a challenge and an opportunity for resolute and effective action.
The ESMH was created three years ago by the European Parliament’s Panel for the Future of Science and Technology (STOA), as a platform to promote networking, training and knowledge sharing between the Parliament, the scientific community and the media.
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Caroline McNamara, RN, ICU, from UPMC Williamsport receives the COVID-10 vaccine.
WILLIAMSPORT– Although vaccinations continue to roll out at a good pace, local health care officials say the process would go faster if not for a lack of trust and too few resources getting COVID vaccines into arms.
Eagerness and trust in science is low in the rural areas of the state with 25 percent of Williamsport residents and 30 percent of Lock Haven residents not willing to learn about or receive the vaccine, UPMC Susquehanna region president and CEO Steve Johnson said at a virtual meeting Wednesday morning.
And the 70 to 75 percent who are eager and have the willingness to gather resources and trust in the science of both the Moderna and Pfizer vaccinations are a majority of those in those brackets of vulnerability –ages 65 or over, with pre-existing conditions or both, Johnson continued.
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A lack of trust among rural Pennsylvanians and a lack of vaccine resources were the main topics of a virtual hearing Wednesday morning on the COVID-19 vaccine rollout.
Organized by the Center for Rural Pennsylvania, participants included state Sen. Gene Yaw, R-Loyalsock Township, center chairman; state Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine; Steven Johnson, president and CEO of UPMC Susquehanna; Dr. George Garrow, chief medical officer, Primary Health Network in Sharon; and Dr. Cary Funk, director of science and society research at the Pew Research Center.
Trust in science is low in the rural areas of the state with 25 percent of people in the Williamsport area and 30 percent in Lock Haven not willing to learn about or receive the COVID-19 vaccine, according to Johnson.
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