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  2. Deaths of anti-vaccine advocates from COVID-19 - Wikipedia

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    This was also reported in The BMJ in October 2021, in a piece which said that "[a]mong the people admitted to hospital with severe respiratory failure from COVID-19 pneumonia who have subsequently died, some had previously held strong anti-vaccine beliefs. Once critically ill, some have changed their minds and shared their stories on social ...

  3. COVID-19 vaccine misinformation and hesitancy - Wikipedia

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    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 receiving the COVID-19 vaccine. Aaron's death was reported as being due to natural causes, and medical officials did not believe the COVID-19 vaccine had any adverse effect on his ...

  4. Race and health - Wikipedia

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    Meanwhile, others have claimed that the human genome is characterized by clinal changes across the globe, in relation with the "Out of Africa" theory and how migration to new environments cause changes in populations' genetics over time. Some diseases are more prevalent in some populations identified as races due to their common ancestry.

  5. Race and health in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Many of the violent and inhuman actions taken towards people of color have shaped how African Americans within the U.S view health care. The Mississippi Appendectomy is where many black slaves were used as test subjects to treat vesicovaginal fistulas, an experiment performed by Dr. James Marion Sims. Dr.

  6. Race (human categorization) - Wikipedia

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    Race is a categorization of humans based on shared physical or social qualities into groups generally viewed as distinct within a given society. [1] The term came into common usage during the 16th century, when it was used to refer to groups of various kinds, including those characterized by close kinship relations. [2]

  7. Vaccine hesitancy - Wikipedia

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    After the introduction of COVID-19 vaccines, vaccine hesitant people have at times demanded that they get donor blood from donors that have not received the vaccine. In the US and Canada, blood centers do not keep data on whether a donor has been COVID-19 infected or vaccinated, and in August 2021 it was estimated that 60-70% of US blood donors ...

  8. COVID-19 pandemic deaths - Wikipedia

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    Global excess and reported COVID-19 deaths and death rates per 100,000 population according to the WHO study [12] A December 2022 WHO study comprehensively estimated excess deaths from the pandemic during 2020 and 2021, concluding ~14.8 million excess early deaths occurred, reaffirming their prior calculations from May as well as updating them ...

  9. Vaccine misinformation - Wikipedia

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    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 ...