From spring break parties to Mardi Gras, many people remember the last major 'normal' thing they did before the novel co
Pfizer, left, and Moderna bivalent COVID-19 vaccines are readied Nov. 17, 2022, for use at a clinic in Richmond, Va. Four years after the spread of a novel coronavirus first prompted U.S. officials to shutter schools and limit public gatherings, misinformation about the virus persists.
"From a misinformation researcher perspective, shifting levels of trust," said Tara Kirk Sell, senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security."Early on in the pandemic, there was a lot of: ‘this isn’t real,’ fake cures, and then later on, we see more vaccine-focused mis- and disinformation and a more partisan type of disinformation and misinformation.
Immunization rates for routine vaccines for other conditions have also taken a hit. Measles had been eradicated for more than 20 years in the U.S. but there have been recent outbreaks inThe vaccination rate among kindergarteners has declined from 95% in the 2019-20 school year to 93% in 2022-23, according to the. Public health officials have set a 95% vaccination rate target to prevent and reduce the risk of disease outbreaks.
Gounder experienced this personally when her husband, the celebrated sports journalist Grant Wahl, died while covering the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. Wahl died of a ruptured aortic aneurysm but anti-vax accounts falsely linked his death to the COVID-19 vaccine, forcing Gounder toat United Facts of America in 2023."And in this case, trying to harm me and my family at a point where we were grieving my husband's loss.
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