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Back in 2013 I developed an outreach program to address #misinformation about infectious diseases, prevention and #vaccines. It combined history, theatre and science. I took it to over a dozen street festivals. Local medical, bioscience, public health students and the odd doctor and public health professional put on historic costumes, and were each given an historic story based on the pre-vaccine era they time-traveled from. The histories gave the passersby we talked to an idea of what life was like pre-vaccines. The fact these costumed people were experts meant visitors could have really informed conversations. Each festival day, we talked to 300-500 individuals. Then COVID happened.
While we faced the odd angry antivaxxer pre-pandemic, I fear that if we were to do these events now there could be more serious trouble.
It was also difficult getting public funding for it as I refused any support from pharmaceutical companies -- and there are costs with putting this sort of event on.
I'm not sure what I can do with this program in future, but I haven't forgotten about it.

#history #scicomm #MedMastodon #medicine #COVID #measles #infectious #IDmastodon #pediatric #publichealth
https://sci-why.blogspot.com/2014/07/quarantine-tent-looks-to-past-in.html

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