Inside Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon’s alcohol- and snacks-saturated battle for Oscar buzz

On Thursday, President Biden announced an ambitious new goal of administering 200 million COVID-19 shots by the end of his first 100 days in office.  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ 

Presented by   On Thursday, President Biden announced an ambitious new goal of administering 200 million COVID-19 shots by the end of his first 100 days in office. The uptick in available supply—and proportional decrease in willing-but-not-yet-vaccinated individuals—make efforts to combat vaccine hesitancy all the more pressing. While recent polling suggests that the number of vaccine-hesitant individuals is falling, a significant number of people say they won’t get vaccinated (15%) or plan to “wait and see” (22%), according to a February Kaiser Family Foundation poll.  Over the past week, Fast Company has been exploring the roots of this hesitancy and misinformation's role in supercharging it in a series called Doubting the Dose. We’ve looked at everything from Instagram’s role in spreading conspiracy theories, to vaccine hesitancy rates among essential workers, to efforts to vaccinate Latinx residents in New York. Read more here. —Julia Herbst   doubting the dose The pernicious staying power of COVID-19’s first viral disinformation campaign In the pandemic’s early months, ‘Plandemic’ introduced millions to a world of anti-mask, anti-vaccine, and anti-government conspiracy. Its ripple effects live on today.   doubting the dose Inside the push to convince hesitant essential workers to get vaccinated Frontline workers have borne the brunt of the pandemic. But even as vaccines become more widely available, misinformation and lack of trust have led many to doubt the vaccine’s safety.   doubting the dose What the science says about 7 common COVID-19 vaccine myths No, the vaccine development process didn’t cut corners, even though it happened in record time.

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