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Frustrated by a confusing rollout, hardworking California volunteers created a website that tracks COVID-19 vaccine availability: VaccinateCA.

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How Californians are resorting to crowdsourcing to get their Covid-19 vaccine California has one of the nation’s worst vaccination rollouts. Residents are crowdsourcing the info the state government should be providing.

Almost 40 percent of Americans say they will not get a COVID-19 vaccine, according to Pew Research Center in December.

Anthropologist and Director of the Vaccine Confidence Project Heidi Larson talks about why that is, and what we can do about it.

Why rumors about vaccines spread -- and how to rebuild trust Why do people distrust vaccines? Anthropologist Heidi Larson explores how medical rumors originate, spread and fuel resistance to vaccines worldwide. While vaccines cannot escape the "political and social turbulence" that surrounds them, she says, the first step to stopping the spread of disease is....