Refocusing on the Local: Understanding the Relationship between Access to Public Health Information, County-Level Demographics, and COVID-19 Vaccination Rates

• In Event: The Effect of Social Networks and News Media on COVID-19 Discourse

Brief Overview

Our project expands upon previous findings that demographics, such as partisanship and rurality, are related to COVID-19 vaccination rates by exploring whether vaccination rates are also associated with access to county health department information.

Authors

• Cabral Bigman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Ewa Maslowska, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Isabella Rose Raynal, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Nikki Usher, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Adrian Wong, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign