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Welcome to our biweekly series in partnership with CIDRAP at the University of Minnesota. I (Izzy) have been watching a lot of John Oliver lately, and I admit that writing this week’s issue feels a bit like rattling off a talk show host’s brain-dump at the beginning of an episode. In the two weeks …
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An imposter US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) vaccine safety site hosted by a nonprofit once led by Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been taken down after a watchdog noticed it being staged.E. Rosalie Li, MA, founder of InfoEpi Lab on Substack, …
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A Minnesotan visiting Washington, DC, has been confirmed to have measles, while the Washington Post reports David Geier, an outspoken vaccine critic, will be heading up a new federal effort to study autism and vaccines. Both news comes as new CDC research shows routine childhood immunizations …
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A growing proportion of Americans believe COVID-19 vaccine misinformation and are unwilling to be vaccinated or to recommend it to others, according to the latest national health survey by the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania.The findings from the third Annenberg …
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A systematic review by Brown University researchers of studies on countering COVID-19 misinformation finds that only 18% included public health measures such as vaccination, and some seemed to give credence to conspiracy theories and other unproven claims.The review also revealed challenges in …
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A new observational study from Canadian researchers reveals that COVID vaccination after long COVID was tied to fewer symptoms, increased well-being, and less inflammation. The study, based on participants in Montreal, is published in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases.Long COVID, or …
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Two new studies describe a couple sources of the COVID-19 “infodemic” on social media: US physicians and proponents and practitioners of “doing your own research.”Vaccine untruths, conspiracy theories A mixed-methods study published yesterday in JAMA Network Open finds that 52 physicians practicing …
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Humans transmit SARS-CoV-2 to their pets, household study finds Among a sample of 107 households with pets and at least one COVID-19–infected adult in Idaho and Washington state, 21% of dogs and 39% of cats had signs of infection, 40% of dogs and 43% of cats had SARS-CoV-2 antibodies, and 5% and …
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Humans transmit SARS-CoV-2 to their pets, household study finds Among a sample of 107 households with pets and at least one COVID-19–infected adult in Idaho and Washington state, 21% of dogs and 39% of cats had signs of infection, 40% of dogs and 43% of cats had SARS-CoV-2 antibodies, and 5% and …
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The White House launched a week-long blitz to encourage vaccination against COVID-19 this weekend, 1 week before the Fourth of July holiday, which the president has said will mark the country’s independence from the pandemic. The administration had hoped 70% of Americans over age 18 would have …
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