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    Tara Haelle‏Verified account @tarahaelle Jan 18

    Tara Haelle Retweeted David Leonhardt

    1/18 This piece is why journalists w/o vaccine reporting experience shouldn’t do hot takes. Despite good intentions, its inept & irresponsible execution make it dangerous. Claiming (falsely) that public health experts are being dishonest w public isn’t how you promote a vaccine.https://twitter.com/DLeonhardt/status/1351211925816946695 …

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    David LeonhardtVerified account @DLeonhardt
    Dr. Offit told me we should be greeting the Covid vaccines with the same enthusiasm that greeted the polio vaccine: “It should be this rallying cry.” Here’s my attempt at summarizing what we know – and don’t yet know – about the vaccines. (fin) https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/18/briefing/donald-trump-pardon-phil-spector-coronavirus-deaths.html?action=click&module=Briefings&pgtype=Homepage …
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      2. Tara Haelle‏Verified account @tarahaelle Jan 18

        2/18 The author does morning newsletters for @nytimes & reviewing his work shows he hasn't reported much on vaccines or hesitancy—and it blatantly shows. He begins in the worst possible way: discussing guidance on masks. Here’s why that is such a dangerous start to his article.

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      3. Tara Haelle‏Verified account @tarahaelle Jan 18

        3/18 A) Masks are still a very divisive article, esp politically. That’s not ok, but that makes comparing vaccine messaging to mask messaging stupidly dangerous right off. B) He’s wrong: there was more to early mask guidance than “not trusting the public.”

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      4. Tara Haelle‏Verified account @tarahaelle Jan 18

        4/18 I’ve covered reasons for mask guidance in the past & won’t hash it out here (where it’ll go off the rails). C) His whole premise that public health experts haven’t being honest with the public in the past AND NOW aren’t again with the vaccine is RIDICULOUS AND DANGEROUS.

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      5. Tara Haelle‏Verified account @tarahaelle Jan 18

        5/18 The headline is good: perhaps we are underselling the vaccine. But the article only gives people more reasons to be distrustful of public health. Journalists w experience in vaccine reporting know what feeds vaccine hesitancy & this article’s narrative is a big part of it.

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      6. Tara Haelle‏Verified account @tarahaelle Jan 18

        6/18 @DLeonhardt writes “Once again, the experts don’t seem to trust the public to hear the full truth.” THAT LANGUAGE IS A DOG WHISTLE FOR ANTI-VAX ADVOCATES. I know Leonhardt isn’t dog whistling—but his ignorance in reporting on this subject is why he makes this mistake.

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      7. Tara Haelle‏Verified account @tarahaelle Jan 18

        7/18 That sentence is verbatim all throughout anti-vaccine messaging. It’s the underlying narrative for ALL anti-vaccine advocacy. In fact, public health experts are exercising the exact caution & direct honesty that anti-vaxxers have claimed is absent from vaccine messaging.

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      8. Tara Haelle‏Verified account @tarahaelle Jan 18

        8/18 The very thing @DLeonhardt is criticizing public health experts for is the very thing they’ve learned to do from years of research into vaccine hesitancy. THEY’RE ACTIVELY AVOIDING MAKING THE SAME MISTAKES OF THE PAST—AND LEONARDT IS IGNORANTLY CRITICIZING THEM FOR IT.

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      9. Tara Haelle‏Verified account @tarahaelle Jan 18

        9/18 What we’ve needed for yrs re vaccines is evidence-based messaging. Now we finally have it: clear communication on benefits, risks & limits of fantastic new vaccines. He’s attacking actual progress in public health messaging—as anyone familiar w vax hesitancy research knows.

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      10. Tara Haelle‏Verified account @tarahaelle Jan 18

        10/18 He also cites inaccurate information w a credible source. He cites @PaulSaxMD in @NEJM saying he’s unaware of any vaccine that prevents disease but not infection. I know 4 off the top of my head & ANYONE who’s reported on vaccines knows the most obvious: pertussis.

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      11. Tara Haelle‏Verified account @tarahaelle Jan 18

        11/18 Thx to fantastic research by Nicola Klein, Tod Merkel & others (and loads of my past reporting), the pertussis vaccine is well known to prevent disease but not infection. Same with influenza, pneumococcal & rotavirus vaccines.https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/baboon-study-reveals-new-shortcoming-of-pertussis-vaccine/ …

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      12. Tara Haelle‏Verified account @tarahaelle Jan 18

        12/18 Since @DLeonhardt spoke to @DrPaulOffit, developer of rotavirus vaccine, you’d think he’d have asked him abt rotavirus vaccine limitations. That's what I did before this thread bc I have a long-standing source relationship w Offit—bc I've reported for a decade on vaccines.

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      13. Tara Haelle‏Verified account @tarahaelle Jan 18

        13/18 Since pertussis, influenza & pneumococcal are all respiratory, there’s good reason not to say the Covid vaccine will prevent transmission until we *actually have data to say so.* The worst thing we can do is suggest it does, find out it doesn’t—and lose public trust.

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      14. Tara Haelle‏Verified account @tarahaelle Jan 18

        14/18 Also 95% effectiveness does *not* “understate” the effectiveness. In reality, real-life effectiveness is often lower than efficacy (which @DLeonhardt would have known if he’d read my @AHCJ piece to journalists on the nuances of vaccine effectiveness)https://healthjournalism.org/blog/2020/10/know-the-nuances-of-vaccine-efficacy-when-covering-covid-19-vaccine-trials/ …

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      15. Tara Haelle‏Verified account @tarahaelle Jan 18

        15/18 Here’s what we know abt Covid vaccines: they’re very safe. They have some anaphylactic reactions that have been well managed & caused no deaths. They’ve been extremely effective in clinical trials. We expect the same in real life. We don’t know if they prevent transmission.

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      16. Tara Haelle‏Verified account @tarahaelle Jan 18

        16/18 The final italicized paragraphs in Leonhardt’s piece are pretty good messaging. And they ARE what public health experts are conveying. But they’re doing it smartly, relying on research about vaccine hesitancy & using evidence-based communication to build public trust.pic.twitter.com/2YshofKafS

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      17. Tara Haelle‏Verified account @tarahaelle Jan 18

        17/18 @DLeonhardt, on the other hand, is undermining public health by framing his “trust how great the vaccine is” message in the context of claiming that experts aren’t being honest with the public. I genuinely don’t know a better way to give anti-vaccine advocacy oxygen.

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      18. Tara Haelle‏Verified account @tarahaelle Jan 18

        18/fin I’ll have a blog post at AHCJ coming soon on this bc I’m so frustrated w vaccine hot takes from journalists who lack experience & knowledge abt vaccine reporting. The stakes are high for irresponsible, ignorant reporting: harming public health.https://healthjournalism.org/blog/2019/03/writing-about-vaccine-hesitancy-theres-a-study-for-that/ …

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      19. Tara Haelle‏Verified account @tarahaelle Jan 18

        adding 19/ I should add: the quotes from @DrPaulOffit @ashishkjha @PeterHotez & @AaronRichterman are great. All are spot on & cld have been well used in a thoughtful article about how we're underselling the vaccine—in the hands of a reporter who understands the vaccine landscape.

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      20. Tara Haelle‏Verified account @tarahaelle Jan 19

        Please unroll @threadreaderapp

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