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After the introduction of COVID-19 vaccines, vaccine hesitant people have at times demanded that they get donor blood from donors that have not received the vaccine. In the US and Canada, blood centers do not keep data on whether a donor has been COVID-19 infected or vaccinated, and in August 2021 it was estimated that 60-70% of US blood donors ...
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]
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 ...
The worry is if people feel forced or coerced into taking a vaccine at certain times, wider vaccine confidence and uptake may experience a backlash. Personal liberty versus state control
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 ...
The little girl, who has a heart murmur and complications after a bad bout of bronchitis, had been covered by Medicaid, the government program insuring low-income and disabled Americans.
Unvaccinated Americans are still driving a surge in COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths in various parts of the country, and one doctor believes that the country needs to appreciate the power of ...
National Federation of Independent Business v. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, 595 U.S. ___ (2022), is a Supreme Court of the United States case before the Court on an application for a stay of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's COVID-19 vaccination or test mandate. On January 13, 2022, the ...