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The country had nearly annihilated polio before conspiracy theories gave the disease room to spread. An army of health workers is set to give coronavirus vaccines too — if Pakistanis will take them. SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The eradication of polio, a highly contagious disease that can paralyze children, …
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If there’s anyone in California who has the right to indulge in a smug smile and an unsolicited “I told you so,” it’s state Sen. Richard Pan. No one has tangled with “anti-vaxxers,” or opponents of vaccinations, quite the way he has. For his many successful efforts to eliminate immunization …
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Sen. Bill Cassidy, of Louisiana, is one of 10 Republicans to meet this week with President Biden about the administration’s COVID relief bill, and one of only a handful of medical doctors serving in Congress. He joins Judy Woodruff to discuss Biden’s plan, former President Trump’s impeachment trial …
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Matt Hancock has revealed the movie Contagion, a film about a deadly viral pandemic, provided him inspiration for the UK’s Covid-19 vaccine strategy. The health secretary said the film, starring Matt Damon, had helped demonstrate to him the importance of securing enough vaccines once they had been …
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Some of the world’s most recognizable landmarks were lit up Saturday, Jan. 31, to mark the World Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) Day. This effort was aimed at reminding the world of the “other” debilitating diseases that affect 1.7 billion of the poorest people on the planet. These include …
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Conspiracy theories mutate faster than the Corona virus. Some theories are just dropped like John F. Kennedy, Jr. coming to life just before the last election to save the country. Others are modified when a previous theory doesn’t pan out. In the aftermath of the recent election each step of the …
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A few months ago, some infectious disease experts began warning that it would extremely difficult, as the COVID-19 pandemic lingered into the fall, for frontline healthcare providers to determine if sickness was due to the novel coronavirus or good, old-fashioned influenza. The reason, they said, …
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How do we navigate the line between healthy skepticism and toxic misinformation? As WXXI’s Noelle Evans reports, when it comes to deciding whether to receive a vaccine, knowing truth from myth could be a matter of life and death. With the development of the COVID-19 vaccine, conspiracy …
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In an odd video posted to Twitter, Bill Gates called for the implementation of a ‘global alert system’, as well as a global ‘pandemic fire squad’ to be ready for the ‘next pandemic.’ “When it comes to preventing pandemics, scientific tools alone aren’t enough.” Gates declares, as he moves around …
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Fewer people are being struck down by the flu than at any time in the past 130 years. Experts say that the bug appears to have been ‘almost wiped out’ after the number of sufferers plummeted by 95 per cent. The second week of January, normally the worst time for the seasonal virus, saw the number …
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