Trust Science More Than Facebook

In a recent interview, Matt Damon continued to advocate for trusting science and medicine in the fight against Coronavirus while also posting misinformation spreading on social media.

The United States now has a free and readily available vaccine for COVID-19, which has killed more than 600,000 Americans, yet many Americans are still hesitant about a vaccine. Each Yahoo! Entertain, only 56% of Americans over the age of 12 are fully immunized, even as the more transmissible Delta variant threatens to create another wave of deaths across the country.

NS Ocean’s Eleven The actor told the magazine, “There are a lot of reasons people have, and I don’t want to belittle them. It’s been tough for me, I have a few friends who are immunocompromised and they can’t get vaccinated, so they have no choice but to rely on the rest of us to get immunity. herd translation. So I see it that way.”

Damon, 50, expressed his wish that if the mindset of our country were towards protecting “better each other instead of” Well, I’m not in this group so I don’t have to worry and it will. doesn’t hurt me much.’ It is simply seeing this as the ‘me’ thing or the ‘we’ thing. But look, it’s a personal choice. That’s the beauty of America, it’s a free country. And none of us could do it any other way. But I’m more inclined to believe in science than what you read on Facebook.”

Last March, Matt Damon and his co-stars from 2011 Infection hosted a virtual reunion with a series of PSAs requested by Columbia University examined by public health experts and scientists. Damon emphasized the importance of social distancing and how it can help prevent the mass spread of the virus.

Infection back in popularity on streaming services last year thanks to its surprisingly accurate pandemic storyline, in which Damon plays a man immune to the disease while co-star Kate Winslet and others collaborate with health professionals to encourage people to trust science and embrace society.