“The top priority is to vaccinate the health care staff so they are healthy and can provide medical treatment,” Cuomo said during a visit to Roswell Park Cancer Institute.
By Liz Szabo, Kaiser Health News
Anti-vaccine groups are exploiting the suffering and death of people who happen to fall ill after receiving a covid shot, threatening to undermine the largest vaccination campaign in U.S. history.
“This is exactly what anti-vaccine groups do,” said Dr. Peter Hotez, an infectious diseases specialist and author of “Preventing the Next Pandemic: Vaccine Diplomacy in a Time of Anti-Science.”
Anti-vaccine groups have falsely claimed for decades that childhood vaccines cause autism, weaving fantastic conspiracy theories involving government, Big Business and the media.
Now, the same groups are blaming patients’ coincidental medical problems on covid shots, even when it’s clear that age or underlying health conditions are to blame, Hotez said. “They will sensationalize anything that happens after someone gets a vaccine and attribute it to the vaccine,” Hotez said.
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Anti-vaccine groups are exploiting the suffering and death of people who happen to fall ill after receiving a covid shot, threatening to undermine the largest vaccination campaign in U.S. history.
Why more people are starting to wear two masks Martin Finucane
Is it time to start wearing two masks?
With the pandemic still raging in the United States and the arrival of a rapid-spreading coronavirus variant, some experts have recommended wearing two masks.
The idea has been gaining traction. If you looked closely at President Joe Biden’s inauguration this week, you could see some prominent double-maskers. Biden himself has worn two masks. But you can also see people walking down the street who have adopted the practice.
In a mid-December commentary in the journal Cell on the science of mask-wearing, two experts wrote that one way for the public to get “maximal protection” from masks was to “wear a cloth mask tightly on top of a surgical mask where the surgical mask acts as a filter and the cloth mask provides an additional layer of filtration while improving the fit.”Shan Soe-Lin and Robert Hecht: Up your mask game