Resources

Confronting vaccine hesitancy

• Ledge Light Health District: COVID Vaccination Journey
• The New York Times: Your Friend Doesn’t Want the Vaccine: What Do You Say?
• The New York Times: Faith, Freedom, Fear: Rural America’s Covid Vaccine Skeptics
• CNN Opinion: How to convince Gen Z-ers they need to be vaccinated
• The Mercury News: Opinion: California’s epidemiologist urges residents to get vaccinated
• Harper’s BAZAAR: The Virus, the Vaccine, and the Dark Side of Wellness
• Kaiser Family Foundation: Latest Data on COVID-19 Vaccinations Race/Ethnicity
• Cleveland Clinic: 9 Common COVID-19 Vaccine Myths Explained

Reliable sources for information on COVID-19 and vaccines

• World Health Organization.
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
• Johns Hopkins University & Medicine.
• Federation of American Scientists.
• NPR: COVID-19 U.S. vaccine distribution tracker
• Bloomberg: Global COVID-19 vaccine distribution tracker
• USAFacts’ Coronavirus Hub and Tracking Map.
• SAS Institute’s Coronavirus Dashboard (with up-to-date graphics and data on the pandemic).
• CovidActNow.org.
• WebMD: Ongoing COVID-19 vaccine misinformation coverage
• Local health agencies.

Also, check out our Flipboard magazine, where we are collecting excellent reporting on COVID-19 from high-quality news organizations and our Flipboard magazine of articles about vaccine misinformation.

Debunking misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines

• Alan C. Miller: Media needs to get COVID-19 vaccine story right
• How to speak up without starting a showdown
• Fact Check: A COVID-19 Vaccine Is NOT Likely To Kill You
• False claim circulates online that formaldehyde in vaccines can cause childhood leukemia
• Fact Check: ID Chip In Some COVID-19 Vaccine Syringes Would NOT Be Injected Into Patients; It Signals Vaccine Expiration Date
• No, COVID-19 vaccines won’t alter your DNA and control you

COVID-19 vaccines in The Sift®

• April 26: 2021 press freedom ranking | Vaccine misinfo | Teen’s Floyd video
• Feb. 1: Vaccine disinfo | Fake GameStop tweet | Top editor turnover
• Dec. 14: Press Freedoms 2020 | Vaccine rumors spike | Understanding news sources
• Dec. 7: Disinformation immunity | Misinterpreted election videos | Black media map
• Nov. 23 Be factful | Vaccine misinformation | COVID-19 comic

Classroom resources

• News Lit Tip: Sanitize before you share (printable PDF).
• Teaching With Checkology During the COVID-19 Pandemic (printable PDF).
• How to know what to trust in 7 steps (printable PDF).

Understanding COVID-19 and vaccine data

• How to interpret data on the effectiveness of the vaccines
• Examining data behind racial disparities.
• Comparing data across countries.
• Comparing data across time.
• Case fatality rate vs. mortality rate vs. risk of dying.
• Age isn’t everything.

What is news literacy?