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  Covid Act Now

COVID is confusing. How does it spread? How is it treated? Who does it affect most? To help you make good decisions, here is a series of informative articles written by health advisors for Covid Act Now, guest writers and COVID Explained’s team of researchers and science students at Brown University, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

 Even Pro-Vaccine Parents Have a lot of Questions. Here are the Answers We Found

There is a lot of misinformation for stressed parents to wade through. With vaccine trials underway for young children, we talked to doctors about what the real risks are

 Fighting Anti-Vaccine Pseudoscience, One Viral Video at a Time

On the social media frontlines with anti-anti-vaxxer Zubin Damania, aka ZDoggMD.

 I Used to Be An Anti-Vaxxer. Here’s What Changed My Mind

I'm now a vaccine advocate. This is how I got here.

America’s Health Will Soon Be in the Hands of Very Minor Internet Celebrities

Local health departments are counting on lifestyle bloggers and fitness experts to get their message out.

Here's What Will Actually Convince People to Get Vaccinated

What doesn’t work, clearly, is pointing fingers and casting blame and shame. It’s the virus that’s the enemy, after all, not the people it infects.

The Vaccine Champions in France Defying Death Threats to Convert Anti-Vaxxers

Among the French skeptics, a core of hardline anti-vaxxers has now seized on the pandemic as its line in the sand. In numerous interviews with TIME over the past week, doctors, scientists, and pro-vaccine activists describe months of relentless trolling and verbal abuse. No health professional has been physically attacked, yet. But the rise in extremist views is unmistakable

Why telling stories could be a more powerful way of convincing some people to take a COVID vaccine than just the facts

When we hear a story, we often lower our guard and tend to start responding emotionally to the characters. Parents, educators and religious leaders have long used this as a way of teaching. Governments could use storytelling to potentially improve COVID vaccination rates particularly among those who are unlikely to get the jab. Governments could add emotional health stories to their vaccination messages.