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Here's how to talk to vaccine skeptics so they might actually hear you

  • Written by Erica Weintraub Austin, Professor and Director, Edward R. Murrow Center for Media & Health Promotion Research, Washington State University
imageAnti-vaccination supporters in Olympia, Wash., protesting the state's stay-at-home orders. Jason Redmond/Getty Images

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