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From prince harry and meghan markle who have a pod cast deal with spotify. theyll continue to work with them, but have major concerns about the misinformation spread there. >> very interesting. thank you very much, and joining me now cnn medical analyst dr. jonathan riner. professor of medicine and surgery at george washington university. doctor, you and i talk about this almost every weekend about the dangers of covid misinformation, disinformation. its prolonged the pandemic. killed people lef...

Vaccines to the holocaust. >> the surgeon general called it a serious threat to public health. >> we are still seeing misinformation spread like wildfire on social media sites. >> whats resulted is a persistent pandemic with more than 100,000 new infections daily and tens of thousands of new covid patients in the hospital. most unvaccinated. >> some of these heavily red districts that voted overwhelmingly for donald trump, the vaccines remain unpopular. not just hesitancy, there are people that ...

International airport and sp spilled to the outside of the terminal. people were injured in the evacuation. a weapon went off by accident but there was no way of knowing that at the time. were at airport and walk yus through what happened, nadia, what do we know. >> reporter: misinformation spread quickly and turned the scene in the airport into chaos and confusion for thousands of passengers. initially the reports came out that there was an active shooter in one of the terminals. and when you c...

It is troubling. you said this was all troubling. why do you think this is happening now? >> i think the images we are seeing from under the bridge. there is no way all of these folks would be able to gather however they got through to be under the bridge. this was almost 15,000 people. most of them, 95% ill say are haitian, there are some africans and some others. it has to be something coordinated to be there at one particular time. so that part, i know it true. >> what do you mean being coord...

Misinformation spread, errors by the cyber ninjas that very rapidly was repeated by donald trump as, at one of his rallies, as truth. >> insanity. kyung lah thanks so much. appreciate it. as crews continue to search for gabby petitos missing fiance there is a brand new investigation linked to this tragic mystery. details are next.

Of course this antimask sentiment is fueled by misinformation spread on social media. this week parents in ottawa county, michigan pushed to get county leaders to reverse a mask mandate. >> the data is extremely clear that masking is unnecessary for children. it is child abuse. >> you are psychologically, narcissistically abusing our children. we wont let you do that anymore. >> ive sent you emails listing all the studies that show the negative impacts that these masks are having on our children...

Take a look at tampa. "tampa bay times" stays areas four largest school districts have reported more than 10,000 covid cases in schools since the semester started three weeks ago. however, there is good news for school leaders who want to defy governor ron desantis ban on mask mandates. just yesterday a florida judge tossed out the ban ruling schools can require masks to protect kids. but educators fighting to keep schools safe in texas, theyre getting different results. this week the states rep...

Selective about what they share online. so thats all good news. but the challenging news is that we still have a long way to go. we are still seeing misinformation spread like wildfire on social media sites in particular. were still seeing many people in our communities, two-thirds of our unvaccinated individuals who believe myths about covid-19 vaccination or think those myths might be true. so weve got a lot of work to do. >> the biden administration has been very critical of tech platforms, d...

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Larger arc of the vaccination effort weve come a long way. administered nearly 320 million doses of the vaccine in people 30 and up. we have about 70% of the population vaccinated. were going to -- were going to need to do more work in the 18 to 26 population in particular. but heres what were learning about why people are not getting vaccinated. for some people its an issue of access, that access is becoming much easier now. for some people its a question of motivation. there are some people is...