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A piece of newsprint discovered during the demolition of a church in southwestern New Brunswick tells a familiar story of public health challenges during a smallpox outbreak in 1885 that have been renewed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Most people celebrated Salk’s shot. This soda-hating businessman did not.
He sees the platform’s lack of action around the anti-vax posts it hosts as the smoking gun. Like Biden, many see Facebook’s news feed as a place of popular misinformation, believing its algorithm helps promote and spread dangerous anti-scientific content, and pressure on Facebook and others is growing. In a letter sent to the platforms in March, attorney generals from 21 US states said that “anti-vaxxer” accounts on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and Twitter reached more than 59 million followers. Evan Vucci/AP US President Joe Biden is troubled at the growing numbers of unvaccinate...
Germany’s Anti-Vaccination History Is Riddled With Anti-Semitism Jewish people were blamed for spreading disease, and considered expendable victims. Getty / Adam Maida / The Atlantic Last year, I felt lucky to be an American in Germany. The government carried out a comprehensive public-health response, and for the most part, people wore masks in public. More recently, COVID-19 cases have surged here, with new infections reaching a single-day zenith in late March. Germany has lagged behind the United States and the United Kingdom in vaccination efforts, and German public-health regulators ha...
December 17, 2020 – The Woodlands, Texas. The December edition of Crystallography Times from Rigaku Corporation is now available on the company’s global website. Crystallography Times is an electronic newsletter published by Rigaku. It serves the X-ray analysis community by presenting current news and research, focusing on single-crystal X-ray diffraction. Rigaku XtaLAB Synergy Flow workflow automation system The featured product for December is the Rigaku XtaLAB Synergy Flow intelligent workflow automation system. Designed to enhance productivity and enable unattended data acquisition,...