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Erica Weintraub Austin

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Professor and Director, Edward R. Murrow Center for Media & Health Promotion Research, Washington State University

A lab technician sorts blood samples inside a lab for a COVID-19 vaccine study at the Research Centers of America in Hollywood, Fla., on Aug. 13, 2020. Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images

October 30, 2020

Why scientists and public health officials need to address vaccine mistrust instead of dismissing it

Sterling M. McPherson, Washington State University; Erica Weintraub Austin, Washington State University, and Porismita Borah, Washington State University

People who oppose vaccines often are dismissed as ignorant or naive. Failing to hear their concerns and address them may only be fueling vaccine resistance, however.

Anti-vaccination supporters in Olympia, Wash., protesting the state’s stay-at-home orders. Jason Redmond/Getty Images

August 20, 2020

How to talk to vaccine skeptics so they might actually hear you

Erica Weintraub Austin, Washington State University and Porismita Borah, Washington State University

Those opposing vaccinations often mistrust government, science and the news media. There may be better ways to persuade them than by offering facts only.

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