IAVA-DataLEADS webinar: Experts advocate media literacy to combat vaccine misinformation
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The virtual workshop covered topics like ‘New and Innovative Vaccine Approaches,’ ‘Fighting Vaccine Misinformation & COVID-19 Disinformation,’ ‘Identifying and Combating Misinformation in India and Africa,’ and ‘Connecting Fact-Checkers, Scientists, and the Public.’ The COVID-19 pandemic reminded us that vaccine hesitancy, fueled with mis- and disinformation generates mistrust among communities. Vaccine-related misinformation has a massive human cost to it, with numerous examples in recent years of people dying, or being killed because of it. To address health misinformation related to vaccina…