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The book addresses misinformation related to vaccination, and asks how vaccine rumors start and why they do not go away. [1] [4] Looking chiefly at high-income countries, the book examines social, political, psychological and cultural factors that make up the various mind-sets to vaccination. [2]
Anti-vaccine activists Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Del Bigtree have suggested without evidence that the death of Baseball Hall of Fame member Hank Aaron was caused by receiving the COVID-19 vaccine. Aaron's death was reported as being due to natural causes, and medical officials did not believe the COVID-19 vaccine had any adverse effect on his ...
On July 22, 2020, the U.S. government placed a conditional advance-purchase order of $2 billion with Pfizer to manufacture 100 million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine, with an option for 500 million more, for use in the United States if the vaccine was shown to be safe, effective, licensed, and authorized by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Ana, an unauthorized immigrant, sits in Servicios de la Raza's Colorado Springs, Colo., office in October 2020. Ana’s 9-year-old son was the first in the family to come down with symptoms that ...
Human challenge studies have ethical considerations because participants are often at risk of serious adverse effects, including death. There are many examples of trials that were problematic or abusive, such as trials on captives under the Nazi regime in Germany or trials with questionable consent procedures in Guatemala by U.S. doctor John Charles Cutler, who also conducted the Tuskegee ...
One survey conducted in January and February 2021 estimated this was responsible for 10% of the COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in the UK at the time. [177] [178] A 2012 survey of American parents found that a fear of needles was the most common reason for adolescents to forgo their second dose of a HPV vaccine. [179] [180]
War on drugs A U.S. government PSA from the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration with a photo image of two marijuana cigarettes and a "Just Say No" slogan Date June 17, 1971 – present (53 years, 7 months, 2 weeks and 1 day) Location Global Status Ongoing, widely viewed as a policy failure Belligerents United States US law enforcement Drug Enforcement Administration US Armed ...
Feds say there’s no money left to respond to hurricanes — after FEMA spent $1.4B on migrants ... Mayorkas and FEMA — immediately stop spending money on illegal immigration resettlement and ...