{"id":10660,"date":"2021-03-15T23:21:39","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T23:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=10660"},"modified":"2021-03-15T23:21:39","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T23:21:39","slug":"countering-the-misinformation-on-covid-19-vaccines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/03\/15\/countering-the-misinformation-on-covid-19-vaccines\/","title":{"rendered":"Countering the misinformation on COVID-19 vaccines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian Government is ramping up its campaign against misinformation on the COVID-19 vaccines, as the vaccination program ramps up moving into Phase 1B.<br \/>\nAustralians can get all their questions answer on the health website to find out what they want \u2013 and need \u2013 to know about the COVID-19 vaccines.<br \/>\nThe new material on the website, called\u00a0<i>Is it true?<\/i>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.health.gov.au\/covid19-vaccines\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.health.gov.au\/covid19-vaccines<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 will help answer questions people may have about the vaccine, and respond to vaccine misinformation they may have heard.<br \/>\nThis new function will provide trusted, credible information on COVID-19 vaccines for everyone in Australia. It will sort the fact from the fiction.<br \/>\nThe information on the website will be clear, accurate and timely. This will help reassure Australians about the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine and answer commonly asked questions and misinformation relating to the COVID-19 Vaccination program.<br \/>\nThe vaccines are the next, crucial step on the road out of this pandemic \u2013 and it\u2019s the one step that we can all take to protect ourselves, our families, our communities from severe illness.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s essential that people get their information on the vaccines from credible sources \u2013 and that should be on official government websites.<br \/>\nWith new vaccine developments every day, it\u2019s very normal for people to have questions and possibly feel hesitant about getting the vaccine. That doesn\u2019t make them anti-vaccination.<br \/>\nThe new section on the website will address the most common questions being asked by people and will be updated regularly.<br \/>\nThe Government is running an extensive $31 million education campaign through the rollout, providing people with information about the approval process for the vaccines, details on what phases the rollout is at and who is now eligible to be vaccinated.<br \/>\nAs the vaccination program starts to move into Phase 1b , which covers more than six million people, it\u2019s essential people understand the facts about the vaccines as they make their appointments to get vaccinated.<br \/>\nThe more people vaccinated, the more people protected from severe illness and death, keeping themselves and the broader community safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian Government is ramping up its campaign against misinformation on the COVID-19 vaccines, as the vaccination program ramps up moving into Phase 1B. Australians can get all their questions answer on the health website to find out what they want \u2013 and need \u2013 to know about the COVID-19 vaccines. The new material on &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/03\/15\/countering-the-misinformation-on-covid-19-vaccines\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Countering the misinformation on COVID-19 vaccines&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}