Misleading: Nurse Contracts COVID After Vaccination

Confusion was sparked on December 30th as multiple outlets published headlines in regard to a nurse in southern California who had contracted the virus. The titles of several of these articles (whether done deliberately or unintentionally) were written so that they could easily have been misinterpreted as proclaiming that the vaccine did not work. Social media users responded with concern, and then later outrage at the dangerous use of “clickbait.” Reuters in particular was heavily criticized and changed the title of their article after being called out.