Vaccine Communication as Weaponized Identity Politics

David A Broniatowski1, Sandra C Quinn1, Mark Dredze1

  • 1David A. Broniatowski is with the Institute for Data, Democracy, and Politics and the Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science, The George Washington University, Washington, DC. Sandra C. Quinn is with the Department of Family Science and the Maryland Center for Health Equity, School of Public Health, University of Maryland, College Park. Mark Dredze is with the Department of Computer Science, Whiting School of Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. Amelia M. Jamison is with the Maryland Center for Health Equity.

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