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Imre Varju

@imre_varju

🧵Pet peeve: 'everyone should weigh the risks of #vaccines vs #COVID for themselves'. I have 2 issues here. #scicomm #healthliteracy #healthcomms #publichealth 1/4

First, you can weigh incorrectly or correctly. If I weighed the Earth, compared it to the Moon, and ended up determining that to me, personally, the Moon outweighed the Earth, I would not be right. 2/4

Second, the term 'themselves'. Risk calculation should include not just my risk for severe #COVID outcomes, but also the risk I pose to others while unknowingly carrying the virus. Why? If other's wellbeing as a reason is not compelling enough ('their problem'), then 3/4

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Jessica Ilunga

@jess_ilunga

Hi everyone,
I'm really excited to lead the #PRChatAfrica discussion tonight. If you also joined the #ACWCommsChat, I hope you still have some energy left for this chat.
Don't forget to use the #PRChatAfrica when you send your comments or questions.

https://twitter.com/PRChatAfrica/status/1240700332205682689

As a quick intro, I am Congolese but I grew up in Belgium. Before working for the #DRC Ministry of Health, I had no background in #health communications. I wasn't even supposed to work there. I was in DRC on holiday just for a couple weeks and I ended up living there for 2 years.

During my time at the MoH, I found myself having to deal with a major #cholera outbreak across the country, even in Kinshasa. A month after it ended, we had the country's 9th #Ebola outbreak. And literally a week after the end of that outbreak, we had the 10th Ebola outbreak.

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