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What's in a name for a vaccine campaign? Maybe the end of the pandemic

  • Written by Katherine A. Foss, Professor of Media Studies, Middle Tennessee State University
imageAn unidentified doctor talks with a boy who holds a lollipop reward after participating in a measles vaccine research program in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, in 1963. NASA/PhotoQuest/Getty Images

Nearly 50 million people in the U.S. had received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine by March 1, and millions of others have spent hours online...

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