With the roll out of the Covid 19 vaccines beginning this week in the United States, the library suggests everyone be an informed participant in the process. The best practice is to get information from reliable sources.

Here is a small sampling of reputable consumer-level COVID vaccine info provided by the South Dakota State library, for libraries to provide to patrons:

Harvard Health Letter-General consumer article on vaccine mis- and disinformation:

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/ecpe/vaccines-social-media-spread-misinformation/

Association for Professional in Infection Control and Epidemiology-Understanding herd immunity and the COVID vaccine:

https://apic.org/monthly_alerts/herd-immunity/?gclid=CjwK-CAiAq8f-BRBtEiwAGr3DgRQ40dMumzusDps8P3EgUzQC4rRqxfg6fyKRE4AbJdwS-XJVldDc-xoCT9gQAvD_BwE

World Health Organization-myths and misconceptions about vaccines:

https://www.who.int/news-room/q-a-detail/vaccines-and-immunization-myths-and-misconceptions

Keep checking back with the National Library of Medicine’s MedlinePlus resource as they will continue to update consumer-level info on COVID vaccines as it becomes available:

https://vsearch.nlm.nih.gov/vivisimo/cgi-bin/query-meta?v%3Aproject=medlineplus&v%3Asources=medlineplus-bundle&query=covid+vaccine&_a=.152491056.845853933.1607548211-75332505.1607548211

If you should need help researching any of these sites contact the library during our regular hours, or call 487-7524.