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.
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.
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US President Joe Biden is troubled at the growing numbers of unvaccinated Americans who are becoming infected with the Delta variant, especially in the south.
Germany’s Anti-Vaccination History Is Riddled With Anti-Semitism
Jewish people were blamed for spreading disease, and considered expendable victims.
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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 have restricted use of the AstraZeneca vaccine to people over 60, after seven cases of rare cerebral blood clots. Key public-health measures, particularly lockdowns and vaccination, have been divisive. Among some people, even the magnitude of the virus’s infectious threat has been in question.
December 17, 2020 – The Woodlands, Texas. The December edition of
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