TikTok conspiracies, infertility myths and other disinformation hinder Covid fight in the US

To help curb disinformation, the California Farmworker Foundation developed a model where they hired farmworkers and paired them with farmworkers’ children who are recent college graduates. The two go into the field, job sites and neighbourhoods to debunk myths through Q&As, first-person vaccination experience and flyers. — Los Angeles Times/TNS

DELANO: As Marissa Zendejas waited to get her first Covid-19 vaccination shot at the headquarters of the California Farmworker Foundation, the 27-year-old rattled off the tall tales she had heard from people she knows and the Internet about why she shouldn’t.

“Like, your life span gets short if you’re vaccinated,” Zendejas said. “You only have this amount of time of life left. Or you’ll get sterilised and won’t have kids no more.”