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Mashup Score: 2How Local Media Spreads Misinformation From Vaccine Skeptics - 3 year(s) ago
Facebook and other social media have been under scrutiny for vaccine misinformation, but local outlets have also sometimes been active.
Source: www.nytimes.comCategories: Healthcare Professionals, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Mashup Score: 109COVID vaccines: time to confront anti-vax aggression - 3 year(s) ago
Halting the spread of the coronavirus will require a high-level counteroffensive against new destructive forces.
Source: www.nature.comCategories: Infectious Disease, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
RT @picardonhealth: #COVID19 vaccines: time to confront #antivax aggression, by @PeterHotez https://t.co/alOb4mUGcb via @Nature #vaccinatio…
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Mashup Score: 13COVID-19, cults, and the anti-vax movement - 3 year(s) ago
Rochelle Burgess and colleagues1 eloquently described participatory community engagement as essential for successful COVID-19 vaccination, which involves appreciating the heterogeneous public and working with communities and their leaders to enable bottom-up approaches. They suggested that COVID-19 has drawn attention to the structural violence that is embedded within society, with the pandemic…
Source: The LancetCategories: Healthcare Professionals, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
"#COVID19, cults, and the #antivax movement" https://t.co/nVGW2NRplx by @SophieMylan via @TheLancet "...a more constructive perspective could view the anti-vax movement as a religious phenomenon, involving a whole spectrum of ideas..."
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Mashup Score: 1The anti-vax movement targeting German children - 3 year(s) ago
An anti-lockdown, anti-vaccine movement with ties to the far right has recruited hundreds of children.
Source: BBC NewsCategories: Healthcare Professionals, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
The anti-vax movement targeting German children German anti-lockdown, #antivaccine movement with links to the far right has recruited hundreds of children into a private online group https://t.co/nbex6UnhFt @BBCNews #CovidVaccines #antivax #Germany #COVID19 #EU #m https://t.co/ESGPRtBHVM
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Mashup Score: 2Anti-vaccine groups receive more than $850,000 in COVID relief program — The Washington Post - 3 year(s) ago
Five groups got more than $800,000 in loans to help small businesses through the pandemic. The groups have been penalized by Facebook for spreading misinformation.
Source: apple.newsCategories: Cardiologists, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
Anti-vaccine groups receive more than $850,000 in COVID relief program #covid #antivax https://t.co/1E5tzGKWKi
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Mashup Score: 3
Five groups got more than $850,000 in loans to help small businesses through the pandemic. The groups have been penalized by Facebook for spreading misinformation.
Source: Washington PostCategories: Healthcare Professionals, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
Ugh: "Trump administration bailed out prominent #antivax groups during a #pandemic" https://t.co/TcAalbmbw3 by @lizzadwoskin @Post_AG Includes money to the organizations for the Kings of Bunk (& #misinformation #superspreaders), Mercola (received $335,000) & Robert Kennedy Jr.
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Mashup Score: 0
Social media companies are cracking down on misleading claims about the new vaccines against the coronavirus.
Source: Washington PostCategories: Healthcare Professionals, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
The accelerating #antivax #Infodemic “They are inserting the word ‘covid’ into the usual canards,” @noUpside said. “They recognize the potential audience is much, much larger — it’s not just new parents searching for info. It’s everyone.” https://t.co/qDhqTHUHhq #VaccinesWork
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Mashup Score: 5The discredited doctor hailed by the anti-vaccine movement - 4 year(s) ago
Riveting biography of Andrew Wakefield is a cautionary lesson in the legacy of hubris.
Source: www.nature.comCategories: Healthcare Professionals, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
The Doctor Who Fooled the World: Andrew Wakefield’s War on #Vaccines - The discredited doctor hailed by the anti-vaccine movement #antivax #vaccines #VaccinesWork #vaccinoCovid #VaccineAgenda #meded #medtwitter https://t.co/RF1afaRJ4q
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Mashup Score: 36Texas and Its Measles Epidemics - 4 year(s) ago
Peter Hotez reflects on declining vaccination rates in Texas and the potential for future measles epidemics.
Source: journals.plos.orgCategories: Healthcare Professionals, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
#OAWeek2020 in this 2016 article in @PLOSMedicine I first called attention to the political pivot of the #antivax movement to the far right, now in 2020 protesting against masks, social distancing, contact tracing, partly responsible for 220,000 deaths https://t.co/T4F5alyCaX
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Mashup Score: 7
We have the tools and technical expertise to eliminate cervical cancer in the United States, but we lack the leadership, drive, and advocacy to make this happen. That must change, write Arthur L. Caplan and Peter Hotez.
Source: CNNCategories: Healthcare Professionals, Latest HeadlinesTweet-
Thread 3/3: Also together with @ArthurCaplan I pointed out @CNN how Australia has committed to eliminating #CervicalCancer over the next decade through HPV vaccination, while in US we are going opposite direction because of misogynistic #antivax lobby https://t.co/3oylnNcjh4
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Appearances and citings of #antivax & misinformation superspreaders like @mercola & @DrChrisNorthrup on local media can have an impact since Americans are more likely to believe what they read and hear from local news outlets. https://t.co/6geEBBy45f #infodemic