16
Feb
2021
Increasing Vaccine Confidence With the Tools That Got Us This Far
By Michele Andrasik, Sally Bock, Stephaun Wallace and Michael Ferguson This month, when the news was full of stories of vaccine scarcity and images of long lines of people hoping to get immunized, the COVID-19 Prevention Network and Fred Hutch ran TV ads during the Super Bowl for people still hesitant about the vaccine in Washington state. When given this... Read More
11
Dec
2020
The Vaccine Is Coming, and Scientists Need to Keep the Focus on Equity
As we navigate this pandemic, the discourse has often created a fog. Science has been doing what it does – forming hypotheses, testing them, gathering vast amounts of data, and pressure-testing conclusions with unprecedented urgency. The ideas that pass scrutiny are being elevated into recommendations, while others are being discarded. Science isn’t perfect. It is practiced by people, and people... Read More