Against the background of the national campaign that will begin next week, building public confidence in receiving the vaccines is extremely important • The media and public arena remains completely hacked into false information, and it is necessary to deal with the Corona deniers • Interpretation
"Hey, Ministry of Health you're sleeping ... it's cool that you brought vaccines, blackmailer, but it's time to start worrying and fighting the disinformation that is celebrating. There are enough people with a scientific or medical background who would be happy to help with information, but go ahead Who to vaccinate, "Dr. Erez Gerty, an immunologist at the Davidson Institute for Science Education at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, tweeted yesterday on Twitter, one of the most important institutes in the country for making scientific information accessible to the public, including vaccines.
Hi @IsraelMOH!
You sleep on your hands.
It's great that you brought vaccines, Sachtein but it's time to start worrying about allaying fears of fighting the disinformation that is celebrating.
There are enough people with a scientific or medical background who will be happy to help with information, but go ahead, start moving or you will not have anyone to vaccinate
- erez garty (@erezgarty) December 14, 2020
Indeed, the Ministry of Health seems to have fallen asleep for a long time in guarding, and has disappeared and been silenced in its all-important and critical mission: to provide credible and serious governmental information on the importance of vaccination and the safety and effectiveness of corona vaccines. Exists to this day in the history of mankind, and also to stand in the face of a handful of vaccine opponents and corona deniers who spread false, dangerous, misleading and misleading information about vaccines.
Although the Ministry of Health launched a special website with questions and answers about the vaccine and will soon upload informational videos with doctors and managers who are already known to the public from their many TV appearances on the Corona, the Ministry of Health has so far left the media and public arena for a very long time. Completely prostituted to false information about conspiracy theories, and to a handful of doctors who disseminate unfounded information that severely undermines public trust.
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Madaat, also one of the main organizations in Israel for the promotion of vaccines, warned yesterday that "non-information about corona vaccines could cost lives, as long as the corona epidemic continues," but the Ministry of Health has so far failed not only to inform and provide information to the public, but also By bringing enough public opinion leaders in all sectors to persuade their publics to get vaccinated and set a personal example.
It should be emphasized that the personal example of heads of state, politicians, rabbis and community leaders is a key means of advocacy for immunization, and the Ministry of Health must make extensive efforts in this regard.
Distrust of restrictions
Mankind has long wished for almost a year to succeed in eradicating the corona plague, which has already claimed the lives of more than 3,000 Israelis and 1.7 million people worldwide.
The vaccines were developed and approved much faster than most scientists and doctors around the world had predicted, but after the great success of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein in bringing vaccines to Israel quickly, no less important is building public trust in vaccines. And to disregard corona restrictions and warnings about the dangers of the plague.
The Ministry of Health and the state have a lot of work to do on this issue, while so far the management of the Ministry of Health has recorded a series of very serious failures and omissions.
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In the Corona plague, the Ministry of Health continues to fail to explain the importance of vaccines, and despite repeated warnings from senior doctors, a report by the State Comptroller and harsh public criticism, it does not regularly maintain any meaningful and satisfactory information system in front of the general public and parents. Explaining the importance of vaccines to groups that oppose vaccines, and he also fails miserably every year even in convincing most medical staffs in hospitals to get the flu vaccine, the exact same teams that are now supposed to be the first to receive corona vaccines and serve as an example to the general public.
So far, the Ministry of Health has also failed miserably and destructively in a conscious and explanatory confrontation with the corona deniers, who have severely harmed the Israeli public, and some of them are senior doctors and directors in large public hospitals in the country.
The combination of Corona deniers and vaccine opponents is a mental and explanatory disaster, which the Ministry of Health has so far failed to deal with.