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    Officials have pleaded with tech giants to keep the documents off their sites, but Amazon briefly had blank vaccination cards for sale this week. They could land their bearers in prison.

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    • File under #Grrr. Crime of not getting vaccinated (which, btw, you do for your #community) + crime of actual fraud = pretty evil person. "Fake #COVID Vaccine Cards Are Being Sold Online. Using One Is A Crime" https://t.co/Wetvz9BXBG by @jaclynmdiaz

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    • Infuriating. Using legal threats to slow uptake. Resistance to vaccine mandates is building. https://t.co/d9dq824r2r by @isaacstanbecker "...resistance is woven together by a common thread: the involvement of a law firm closely tied to the anti-vaccine movement." #Grrr.

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    Social media posts claim that the Supreme Court of Canada agreed to hear a case accusing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Ontario Premier Doug Ford and other civic officials of “crimes against humanity” for implementing public health measures against Covid-19. This is false; the document used as proof was filed in a provincial court where it was dismissed pending appeal, and the country’s top court…

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    • #Grrr. Increasingly seeing "rights" language (pseudo-law) being used to push bunk. Ignore. "Canada’s top court is not hearing case about #Covid19 ‘crimes’" https://t.co/VQfIMp0VzU via @AFPFactCheck "...the country’s top court confirmed that no such case exists on its docket."

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    “Immune boosting” is a trending topic during the COVID-19 pandemic. The concept of “immune boosting” is scientifically misleading and often used to market unproven products and therapies. This paper presents an analysis of popular immune-boosting posts from Instagram. Of the sampled posts, all promoted “immune boosting” as beneficial, nearly all involved commercial interests, and many used…

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    • #Grrr. So frustrating that #Instragram algorithm pushing #covid #misinformation. This fits with our study looking at #immuneboost bunk: https://t.co/ybys3MyzDH We found content "devoid of sound science and full of commercial content." #ScienceUpFirst!

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    Students and young people who may have missed out on their measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccinations are being encouraged to get immunised as figures show there were 5042 laboratory confirmed cases of mumps in England in 2019, the highest number of cases since 2009. This compared with 1066 cases in 2018, according to …

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    • "Wakefield cohorts." #Grrr. "Unvaccinated 'Wakefield cohorts' blamed for 5000 cases of mumps in England last year" https://t.co/TxaURBO74m via @zosiamk @bmj_latest "...yet another example of the long term damage caused by anti-vaccination information." #VaccinesWork https://t.co/niRkDDGSJy