Dr. Fauci has this message for Anti-Vaxxers
"If you could, in a non-confrontrial way, give them the correct information ..."
With hopes related to an effective vaccine ending the coronavirus epidemic, a great concern remains that if people do not take it? During a fire discussion with students yesterday in theBerkeley Forum,Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), discussed how to treat the anti-vaccine movement.
"So the anti-vaccine rage won a traction even before Covid-19. How do we plan to resolve the split of the nation, including anti-vaxxers and those who are actively looking for a vaccine, especially if we need A vaccinated majority to contain the spread of the propagation of the virus?, "asked a student.Read on and ensure your health and health of others, do not miss these Without signs that you have already had coronavirus.
How to convince the anti-Vaxxers to take the Covid vaccine?
"Well, I managed the anti-vaccine movement, mainly centered around measles, which is one to the trigger with the false information that the measles vaccine causes autism, which does not do it absolutely not.The only thing you need to do is not denigrate, accuse or lack respect for people who do not want to be vaccinated, if you feel that you want to convince them to change your mind,"Dr. Fauci responded.
"If you look at the anti-vaxxers as a whole," he continued, "there is a hardcore group that no matter what you do, you're not going to change his mind, but there is also a Group against vaccines because they've absorbed misinformation. And if you could, in a non-confrontational way, give them the correct information, you may be able to win them if they were open to mind sufficiently open to realize that the information on which they made its judgment. Not wanting to be vaccinated is actually incorrect. And you could give them the correct information. There are a number of other people who are not vaccinated because they do not have time, but they do not fully appreciate the importance and severity of it. If you can facilitate vaccination, you can win at least one segment of people who for one reason or another do not want to be vaccinated. "
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What is the antidote of inaccasing?
Earlier in the fire cat, Dr. Faisci was questioned about the disinformation that spreads on social media. He was too much aware of that. "I mean, examples of people who do not want to wear masks - so do not believe that if you're just going in a crowd, you're not going to be infected, or if you're infected, it's going to be meaningless because It's a trivial epidemic sense. Well, how could it be an epidemic if it has already killed 210,000 people in the United States and one million people around the world - but there are people who think that all this is a great conspiracy that we have done. "
HR The chips of the brain of people to make them do in a certain way. I mean, really it's you nice to scratch your head and tell yourself, is it really true? But it's there and it's unfortunate. "
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Be consistent in your email
Fauci says that the antidote to misinformation is a clear message. "It's not easy, but it can be done," he says. "You must be consistent in your email. You must be articulated in your mail. You must understand what your audience is, and you must have a crisp and clear message. One of the problems that many scientists have, is that when 'They are trying to messenger, they do it at a level that really confuses things rather than clarifying things. So, if you try to overcome myths and this information, you have to be outside, but you have to be there. Bottom consistently. And what you say must be based on solid scientific data and evidence and not the type of overmalation and conjectures that often lead across this argument. "
As for yourself, practice the fundamentals of Dr. Faisci - wear afacial mask, wash your hands, avoid crowds, do not get together with people inside, get your influenza shot - and crossing this pandemic with your healthier, do not miss these 35 places you are most likely to catch Covid .