We all know somebody who has concerns about vaccines. How do you address them?

YOUR COVID TOOLBOX is five-part series where Cosmos editor-at-large Elizabeth Finkel hunts down all the facts and figures you need to understand COVID-19 vaccines. Cosmos spoke to Finkel why she wrote a letter to her friends and what she has learned since.

A letter to my vaccine hesitant friends

A nurse explains to a woman the vaccination process

A woman wearing a mask with blue gloves. She is holding a needle and injecting another womans arm. — **Are COVID-19 vaccines experimental?**

People standing in a line — **The rollout: The danger of vaccines vs the danger of COVID**

Patient attached to respirator at beginning of operation — **Adverse reactions: Guillain Barre, TTS and the fine mesh net**

A man holding a smartphone and a medicine bottle, reading the instructions — **What we know about Ivermectin: correlation is not causation**

Originally published by Cosmos as How to write a letter to your vaccine hesitant friends

Lauren Fuge

Lauren Fuge is a science journalist at Cosmos. She holds a BSc in physics from the University of Adelaide and a BA in English and creative writing from Flinders University.

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