- June 25, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
The next phase of our vaccine rollout depends on understanding and addressing the varied reasons people might avoid vaccines. However, Caplan said, “we can’t get anywhere if people won’t tell us.” And when public figures hedge about their own vaccination status, it gives permission for everyone else to retreat and helps stigmatize the subject at a crucial time when open, nuanced conversations are a critical public health tool.
“The country’s divided. Take a stand, be honest, explain your point of view,” Caplan said. Doing that on the largest of stages offers a model to local public figures and micro-influencers—such as faith leaders and family physicians—for how they might broach these difficult conversations. “When you start hemming and hawing, then you do turn it into a stigma,” he said.
With the threat and danger of Covid-19 still with us, celebrities still have the opportunity to use their prominence to encourage trusting fans…
