The Sars-Cov-2 vaccines currently approved for emergency use in the U.S. constitute a breakthrough in vaccine research, and a way to return to regular life. Despite this, the American public remains divided as to the vaccines’ perceived safety, and continue to express low levels of intent to accept the vaccine when one is available.
Thomas Wood, Senior Faculty Fellow with the Mershon Center's Security and Governance Research Cluster and political scientist at OSU, recently received a large grant from Google to study the effect of online vaccine misinformation, and how to effectively redress falsehoods in an online setting. Google’s Newslab will use Wood’s findings to guide the company’s grant making to online media outlets, as they build out their own fact checking capabilities.
If you require an accommodation such as live captioning or interpretation to participate in this event, please contact Kyle McCray, mccray.44@osu.edu. Requests made two weeks before the event will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.
First Fridays
This event is part of the Mershon Center's First Fridays seminars featuring research by Mershon Center affiliates and taking place the first Friday of each month. We welcome Mershon-affiliated faculty and graduate students, as well as the broader university community, to find out more about our work.
