Glen Nowak is a professor of advertising and public relations and director of the Center for Health and Risk Communication in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. (Photo by Dorothy Kozlowski/UGA)
Glen Nowak, director of the University of Georgia’s Center for Health and Risk Communications, was recently quoted in a USA Today article about the complexities of immunization regarding the novel coronavirus.
Nowak said that immunizing the general population involves “much more than most people imagine.”
“We know there are broad-stroke ideas of how this is supposed to work,” he said, “but as the vaccine gets distributed deeper and deeper into the system, it’s going to get more complicated.”
The article continued to discuss the need for financial resources and more time, with regard to vaccine rollouts during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“This is one of the reasons you’ve seen so many of the state and county health departments say how important it is that they get additional resources,” Nowak said. “The complexity is going to do nothing but increase.”
