What were the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on trust in public health information, and what can be done to rebuild trust in public health authorities? This essay synthesizes insights from science and technology studies, information studies, and bioethics to explore sociotechnical factors that may have contributed to the breakdown of trust in public health information during the Covid-19 pandemic. The field of science and technology studies lays out the dynamic nature of facts, helping to explain rapid shifts in public health messaging during Covid-19 and reasons they produced a lack of trust in public health authorities. The information field looks at how facts are sociotechnically constructed through systems of classification, illustrating how extrascientific factors influence public health authorities. Putting these perspectives alongside bioethics principles raises additional factors to consider. The goal of this essay is to learn from past failures to point toward a brighter future where trust in public health authorities can be rebuilt, not on faith, but rather through striving for calibrated trust within which, through a virtuous circle, trust is validated.

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Covid-19 大流行期间不信任的社会技术构建

Covid-19 大流行对公共卫生信息的信任产生了哪些影响？可以采取哪些措施来重建对公共卫生当局的信任？本文综合了科学技术研究、信息研究和生物伦理学的见解，探讨了在 Covid-19 大流行期间可能导致公共卫生信息信任崩溃的社会技术因素。科学技术研究领域揭示了事实的动态性质，有助于解释 Covid-19 期间公共卫生信息的快速变化以及它们导致人们对公共卫生当局缺乏信任的原因。信息领域着眼于如何通过分类系统从社会技术角度构建事实，说明超科学因素如何影响公共卫生当局。将这些观点与生物伦理学原则结合起来会提出更多需要考虑的因素。本文的目的是从过去的失败中吸取教训，指出一个更光明的未来，在这个未来，人们可以重建对公共卫生当局的信任，不是基于信仰，而是通过努力建立校准信任，在这种信任中，通过良性循环，信任得到验证。