Fear grows that vaccine misinformation will be worse than election disinformation
Forty percent of Americans have said they definitely or probably will not get a vaccine for coronavirus.
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Before the United States can reach “herd immunity,” it will take two-thirds of the population to be inoculated with a coronavirus vaccine. That means nearly 250 million people.
So far, just over 2 million American people have received their first dose of a vaccine.
The rapid speed of coronavirus vaccines’ development is adding to the equally-fast spread of misinformation about them on social media. (Photo by Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images)
There is a long, long way to go in the fight to beat COVID-19 and the effort to vaccinate Americans against it. Yet, actual misinformation about the vaccines themselves is of growing concern to many experts as false rumors continue to spread.