Smart thoughts on a missed opportunity.
. Deferring to a “my body, my choice” stance doesn’t shake when vaccination status affects others and determines whether the spread of an infectious disease can be slowed or stopped.That was my reaction. But I wanted to know how that message—“yes, I got the vaccine, but I’m not going to say that you should get it too, because it’s a personal choice”—sat with public health officials who have spent so much time thinking about messaging and persuasion.
“It’s really a missed opportunity for him to be able to say, ‘Hey, I encourage you all to get vaccinated to help protect our communities,’ ” said Rupali Limaye, the director of behavioral and implementation science at Johns Hopkins’ International Vaccine Access Center. “I appreciate him coming out and saying that he got it, but I wish he could have taken that a little further.
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