Passports, pauses, and Pfizer: Here’s where Covid-19 misinformation went in April
Over the course of April, English-language media coverage related to vaccines revolved around three key themes: opposition to “vaccine passports” in the U.S., the safety of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, and the Pfizer vaccine’s effectiveness in younger adults.
Coverage of vaccines generally peaked on April 13, following the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration’s joint recommendation to pause the Johnson & Johnson vaccine’s rollout because of a possible link to rare blood clotting disorders.
Two other spikes occurred on April 1 and...