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This couple’s social media accounts have been identified as among the top vaccine misinformation super spreaders by organizations such as NewsGuard, which analyzes the credibility of websites.

NFL families seek to end race-norming in $1B settlement of brain injury claims PHILADELPHIA -- - Thousands of retired Black professional football players, their families and supporters are demanding an end to the controversial use of "race-norming" to determine which players are eligible for payouts in the NFLs $1 billion settlement of brain injury claims, a system experts say is discriminatory. Former Washington running back Ken Jenkins, 60, and his wife Amy Lewis on Friday delivered 50,000 pe...

Retired Black players say NFL brain-injury payouts show bias By MARYCLAIRE DALE and MICHELLE R. SMITHMay 14, 2021 GMT PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Thousands of retired Black professional football players, their families and supporters are demanding an end to the controversial use of “race-norming” to determine which players are eligible for payouts in the NFL’s $1 billion settlement of brain injury claims, a system experts say is discriminatory. Former Washington running back Ken Jenkins, 60, an...

Michelle R. Smith And Johnatan Reiss This Wednesday, May 12, 2021 image shows a website featuring Ty and Charleen Bollinger advertising their video series, "The Truth About Vaccines 2020." The Bollingers are part of an ecosystem of for-profit companies, nonprofit groups, YouTube channels and other social media accounts that stoke fear and distrust of COVID-19 vaccines, resorting to what medical experts say is often misleading and false information. (AP Photo) May 13,...

Inside a network of ‘vaccine safety advocates,’ one of many profiting from spreading disinformation Updated May 13, 2021; Posted May 13, 2021 This Wednesday, May 12, 2021 image shows a website featuring Ty and Charleen Bollinger advertising their video series, "The Truth About Vaccines 2020." The Bollingers are part of an ecosystem of for-profit companies, nonprofit groups, YouTube channels and other social media accounts that stoke fear and distrust of COVID-19 vaccines, resorting to wha...

MICHELLE R. SMITH, LAUREN WEBER and HANNAH RECHT Congress has poured tens of billions of dollars into state and local public health departments in response to the coronavirus pandemic, paying for masks, contact tracers and education campaigns to persuade people to get vaccinated. Public health officials who have juggled bare-bones budgets for years are happy to have the additional money. Yet they worry it will soon dry up as the pandemic recedes, continuing a boom-bust funding cycle that has ...

Billions spent on coronavirus fight, but what happens next? MICHELLE R. SMITH, LAUREN WEBER and HANNAH RECHT, Associated Press and KHN April 19, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 5 1of5Dr. Mysheika W. Roberts, the health commissioner for Columbus Public Health, poses for a portrait in Columbus, Ohio, on Wednesday, April 14, 2021. Public health officials who have juggled bare-bones budgets for years are happy to have the additional money prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet they worry it ...

Billions spent on coronavirus fight, but what happens next? MICHELLE R. SMITH, LAUREN WEBER and HANNAH RECHT, Associated Press and KHN April 19, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 3 1of3Dr. Mysheika W. Roberts, the health commissioner for Columbus Public Health, poses for a portrait in Columbus, Ohio, on Wednesday, April 14, 2021. Public health officials who have juggled bare-bones budgets for years are happy to have the additional money prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet they worry it ...

Public health seeks steady funding, not feast or famine By Michelle R. Smith, Lauren Weber and Hannah Recht - Associated Press and KHN Congress has poured tens of billions of dollars into state and local public health departments in response to the coronavirus pandemic, paying for masks, contact tracers and education campaigns to persuade people to get vaccinated. Public health officials, used to juggling bare-bones budgets, worry the money will dry up as the pandemic recedes, continuing a boom...

Countries worldwide hit new records for virus cases, deaths Poll Yes Ambulances filled with breathless patients lined up in Brazil as nations around the world set new records Thursday for COVID-19 deaths and new coronavirus infections. The disease surged even in some countries that have kept the virus in check. In the United States, Detroit leaders began making a plan to knock on every door to persuade people to get vaccine shots. Brazil this week became just the third country, after the U.S. a...