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1of18File - In this Saturday, May 29, 2021, file photo, people crowd the Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, Calif. Coronavirus cases have jumped 500% in Los Angeles County over the past month and health officials warned Tuesday, July 13, 2021, that the especially contagious delta variant of the disease continues to spread rapidly among California s unvaccinated population.Damian Dovarganes/APShow MoreShow Less
2of18A nurse prepares to administer a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to an elderly woman in her house in rural Sabab Bernam, central Selangor state, Malaysia, Tuesday, July 13, 2021. Medical teams are going house to house in rural villages to reach out to elderly citizens as the government seeks to ramp up its vaccination program. Despite a strict lockdown, the pandemic has worsened with more than 844,000 confirmed cases nationwide and over 6,200 deaths.Vincent Thian
Mississippi’s health department is aiming to combat misinformation on COVID-19 by limiting users ability to comment on its Facebook posts related to case numbers and vaccine distribution.
Liz Sharlot, a spokeswoman for the Mississippi State Department of Health, told The Associated Press that the “comments section of our Facebook page has increasingly come to be dominated by misinformation about COVID-19.”
Sharlot added that the false information included in the comments from various social media users could “mislead the public about the safety, importance and effectiveness of vaccination.”
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While the comments section is open on department posts related to other health issues, including one on Tuesday about a program for cancer survivors, all posts from recent days related to COVID-19 cases as well as hospitalization, death and vaccination rates do not contain the comment function.