Vaccine misinformation

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  Doctors push back as parents embrace Kennedy and vitamin A in Texas measles outbreak

  Reuters - Chad Terhune

  March 8 (Reuters) - As a measles outbreak spreads across West Texas, Dr. Ana Montanez is fighting an uphill battle to convince some parents that vitamin A - touted by vaccine critics as effective against the highly contagious virus - will not protect their children. The 53-year-old pediatrician in …

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  Health officials prepare for measles spread as disinformation threatens already low vaccination rates

  CNN

  CNN — When Pastor Landon Schott attended a school board meeting for Mercy Culture Preparatory Academy last week, he found the room filled with balloons and T-shirts. The celebratory shirts read: #1 school in Texas for least amount of vaccinations. Schott, who has more than 48,000 followers on …

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  Health Experts Debunk Measles Misinformation

  Forbes - Emma Woollacott

  Concerned health professionals are speaking out about the wave of measles myths that has helped fuel an outbreak of the disease in the U.S. Cases have been reported in more than a dozen states, with the worst-affected Texas, where 223 have been identified since late January and one death has been …

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  Covid vaccines aren't linked to sudden death in young people, a new CDC report finds.

  NBC News - By Berkeley Lovelace Jr.

  The new report debunks widespread misinformation that the mRNA shots were connected to sudden cardiac death in young athletes. There is no evidence that mRNA Covid vaccines cause fatal cardiac arrest or other deadly heart problems in teens and young adults, a Centers for Disease Control and …

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  Four years after shelter-in-place, COVID-19 misinformation persists - Poynter

  poynter.org - Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu

  From spring break parties to Mardi Gras, many people remember the last major “normal” thing they did before the novel coronavirus pandemic dawned, …

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  New 99 million patient COVID-19 vaccine safety study - is it really the bombshell the headlines make it out to be?

  epidemiologistkat.com

  The COVID-19 vaccines were globally introduced in 2020, accompanied by the most intensive vaccine safety monitoring program the world has ever seen. …