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Anti-vaccinationists have been known as "anti-vaxxers" or "anti-vax". [20] The specific hypotheses raised by anti-vaccination advocates have been found to change over time. [ 19 ] Anti-vaccine activism has been increasingly connected to political and economic goals.
Prescription drug list prices in the United States continually are among the highest in the world. [1] [2] The high cost of prescription drugs became a major topic of discussion in the 21st century, leading up to the American health care reform debate of 2009, and received renewed attention in 2015.
In the early 1980s, the organization joined with the American Academy of Pediatrics to draft the original legislation for the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, [18] [19] which created a federal vaccine injury compensation program, mandated doctors to give parents vaccine benefit and risk information, and required the recording and ...
In 2017, Kids Plus Pediatrics, an independent medical practice in Pittsburgh, posted a 90-second video on its Facebook page encouraging parents to have their children vaccinated against human ...
A single vaccine-skeptical article in the Chicago Tribune — headlined "A healthy doctor died two weeks after getting a COVID vaccine; CDC is investigating why" — was viewed by more than 50 ...
TikTok star Alexandra Blankenbiller, who died from COVID-19 in late August, used the phrase in a video from her hospital bed while explaining why she didn't get the COVID-19 vaccine. "I'm not anti ...
Check Point research released in August 2021 showed that fake vaccination cards were being sold via messaging apps and priced between $100 and $120 a card. Interpol announced that they were seeing a direct correlation between countries requiring negative COVID-19 tests to enter the country and the increased number of provided fake vaccination ...
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 ...