This week, false claims about infant hepatitis B and COVID-19 vaccines circulated while regional debates about vaccine mandates and the summer COVID-19 surge persist....
Regionally, back-to-school vaccinations, declining immunization rates, and the Oregon measles outbreak dominated conversations....
Conversations also spiked after former President Trump doubled down on his commitment to weakening school vaccine mandates....
Conversations also spiked after former President Trump doubled down on his commitment to weakening school vaccine mandates....
This week, two presidential candidates promoted vaccine myths, adult chickenpox went viral, and school vaccines drew ire in the South....
In trending conversations this week, fearmongering grows about pediatric vaccine safety as measles outbreaks in the Northwest and Midwest sparked false claims. False claims about COVID-19 vaccine safety dominated national vaccine conversation in the past week, with some high-profile social media users linking previously debunked claims to recent events. Most...
Last week, a Tennessee woman who had been fired from Blue Cross Blue Shield for refusing to receive a COVID-19 vaccine won a $700,000 settlement. Within a day, news of the settlement spread across multiple news outlets and social media platforms. Some social media users called the woman a...
On July 3, a Colorado dairy farm worker became the fourth person to contract H5N1 bird flu in the U.S. this year. The person only reported eye symptoms and has fully recovered after treatment. The CDC reported that the risk to humans remains low and that farm workers who...
Last week, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (WDHS) announced that as of July 1, the state had 126 cases of whooping cough—more than double the number of cases last year—and recommended that residents stay up to date on whooping cough vaccines. WDHS shared its recommendations on social...
Vaccine opponents are circulating a new Italian study that claims to have found a decrease in life expectancy following mRNA COVID-19 vaccination. The study assessed death from any cause in people who were unvaccinated and those who had received one or more vaccine doses, finding that a higher number of...
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