Vaccine Skepticism Helped Put Them in Power. Can They Inoculate Italy?
The Five Star Movement’s long history of sowing doubt about vaccines may have made Italy’s mass inoculation program that much harder. The irony is not lost on Italians.
Vaccinations underway at a hospital in Piacenza, Italy, last month.Credit.Alessandro Grassani for The New York Times
Published Jan. 12, 2021Updated Jan. 26, 2021
ROME Over a decade ago, an activist in Italy’s Five Star Movement wrote to the nascent party’s leaders to tell them that his law firm, after years of seeking “damages from vaccination,” had convinced a judge that a vaccine was a potential source of autism.
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