Course was held in March and April
Journalists, communicators and fact-checkers from around the world were invited to undertake the specialised online course – Covering the COVID-19 Vaccine: what journalists need to know.
The interactive course was in four weekly modules. The course examined many of the challenging and evolving aspects of the vaccine rollout –
- the science of the development of the vaccines already released as well as of those being created
- the policies of acquisition and distribution of vaccines globally and questions of equity
- vaccine hesitancy
- anti-vaccination activism
- mis- and disinformation against vaccines
- population immunity
- emerging variants of the virus