I-Way_Vagabond t1_j8hlvpr wrote on February 14, 2023 at 11:03 AM

Reply to comment by sw33tr3l33s in A study in the US has found, compared to unvaccinated people, protection from the risk of dying from COVID during the six-month omicron wave for folks who had two doses of an mRNA vaccine was 42% for 40- to 59-year-olds; 27% for 60- to 79-year-olds; and 46% for people 80 and older. by Wagamaga

I think you’ve hit the nail right on the head with you comment.

The inability of public health leaders to explain these things in simple English has resulted in an information vacuum. As a result, people with their own agendas, often self-serving or even nefarious, have moved in to fill it.

The end result is confusion among the public and in many cases distrust and outright hostility towards public health authorities.

hallgod33 t1_j8i5t0t wrote on February 14, 2023 at 2:19 PM

I've got a BSPH, and I'd say that is a huge barrier no one wants to tackle. Medical anthropology is designed to help reduce the communication barrier, but no one in practical medicine wants to listen. Even though we use the same English words, the grammar and sentence structure and etc make medical science a functionally different language.