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.
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.
by Darla Carter | Presbyterian News Service
Many Presbyterian Church (U.S.A) churches found creative ways to use Eco-Palms last year. (Contributed photos)
LOUISVILLE â With Palm Sunday just nine weeks away, churches are encouraged to turn their thoughts to Eco-Palms by March 5, the deadline to order fronds.
In 2020, more than 1,000 Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) congregations ordered Eco-Palms, an environmentally friendly product that benefits communities in Guatemala. The Presbyterian Hunger Program (PHP) hopes demand will be strong this year, too.
âWe believe in the empowering work that it (the Eco-Palms project) does, allowing people who work the hardest to provide for themselves to reap the benefit from that,â said Jessica Maudlin Phelps, Associate for Sustainable Living and Earth Care Concerns for PHP. âThis project allows the harvesters, as well as the congregations that are participating in Eco-Palms, to protect the health of the forest, local jobs and su
Corporate mediaâs leaked Chinese documents confirm China didnât hide Covid-19
It is important for American journalists to combat these misperceptions, so that the U.S. can learn from Chinaâs response on how to better deal with the current crisis.
CNN, the
New York Times and
ProPublica claimed to be leaked Chinese documents. Although these reports implied that China was responsible for how bad the pandemic has been because of its downplaying of numbers and censoring of critical information, these narratives are themselves misleading in several ways.
CNN (11/30/20) released âThe Wuhan Filesâ in late November, announcing âa string of revelations contained within 117 pages of leaked documents from the Hubei Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention.â According to