Of Viruses, Vaccines, and Variability: Qualitative Meaning Matters. Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Deaths from COVID-19 depend on millions of people understanding risk and translating this understanding into risk-reduction behaviors. Although numerical information about risk is helpful, numbers are surprisingly ambiguous, and there are predictable mismatches in risk perception between laypeople and experts. Hence, risk communication should convey the qualitative, contextualized meaning of risk.

publication date

  • June 3, 2020

Research

keywords

  • Coronavirus Infections
  • Decision Making
  • Health Communication
  • Pandemics
  • Pneumonia, Viral
  • Risk
  • Viral Vaccines

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC7266748

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 85086926963

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1016/j.tics.2020.05.015

PubMed ID

  • 32600966

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 24

issue

  • 9