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The medical examiner later found no evidence of a link to the vaccine, but the article was promoted and twisted by anti-vaccine groups to raise doubt about vaccine safety. [91] Anti-vaccine activists Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Del Bigtree have suggested without evidence that the death of Baseball Hall of Fame member Hank Aaron was caused by ...
Following Joe Biden's inauguration in 2021, Facebook executives organized a Zoom meeting with Biden's National Security Council (NSC), which adopted a pro-vaccine policy and sought to combat vaccine hesitancy in developing countries. In spring 2021, the NSC ordered the US military to cease all anti-vaccine messaging, which persisted until ...
Maduro's administration has authorized the use of chloroquine, a medication to treat malaria that can cause heart problems if not used properly, [111] and interferon alfa-2b, [111] an antiviral used on a small scale in China that has been promoted by Cuba's government, labeled sometimes even as a "vaccine". [112]
The center analyzed over 812,000 Facebook and Twitter vaccine-related posts shared between February 1 and March 16 of this year. Sixty-five percent of anti-vaccine posts came from one of the 12 ...
The headline on a report published by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s anti-vaccine organization, Children's Health Defense, stated that the COVID vaccines "likely fueled rise in excess deaths ...
His lies about the 2020 election he lost to Democrat Joe Biden spurred the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, an event that quickly spun off its own conspiracy theories.
The World Health Organization has classified vaccine related misinformation into five topic areas. These are: threat of disease (vaccine preventable diseases are harmless), trust (questioning the trustworthiness of healthcare authorities who administer vaccines), alternative methods (such as alternative medicine to replace vaccination), effectiveness (vaccines do not work) and safety (vaccines ...
Misinformation that the Indian government was spreading an "anti-corona" drug in the country during Janata curfew, a stay-at-home curfew enforced in India, went viral on social media. [ 463 ] Following the first reported case of COVID-19 in Nigeria in February, untested cures and treatments began to spread via platforms such as WhatsApp .