NEW: Surgeon General Vivek Murthy releases a step-by-step toolkit to help people combat misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccines in their own close circles.
The toolkit, which Murthy hopes will be used by health professionals, faith leaders, teachers or parents with children newly eligible for the shot, is the next step in addressing the ongoing problem. Novemberfrom the Kaiser Family Foundation showed that nearly eight in 10 adults have come across false statements about COVID-19 and have either believed them or been unsure if they were true.
"The companies have done some work to address health misinformation but they've not done nearly enough. And it's not happening nearly quickly enough," Murthy said. It includes discussion questions and illustrations explaining why people share misinformation or what a hypothetical conversation around misinformation could look like.U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy said the toolkit is for community members to"have something concrete" to guide them in conversations about misinformation, he said in an interview with ABC News.
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