Coronavirus conspiracy theories mean vaccine ‘might not be enough’ to end pandemic, scientists warn
4 years, 5 months ago

Coronavirus conspiracy theories mean vaccine ‘might not be enough’ to end pandemic, scientists warn

The Independent  

The development of a Covid-19 vaccine “might not be enough” to end the pandemic as the growing popularity of conspiracy theories deters people from taking the jabs, scientists have warned. The notorious 5G conspiracy theory — which alleges telecommunication towers are worsening Covid-19 symptoms or somehow spreading the virus — holds sway over smaller but still significant segments: 16 per cent in Mexico and in Spain, 12 per cent in Ireland, and 8 per cent in the US and UK, where the claim fuelled arson attacks on wireless towers earlier this year. People with good numeracy skills were "significantly and consistently” less likely to believe conspiracy theories in each of the five countries, the study found. On average, an increase of one-seventh in a participant’s tendency to believe conspiracy theories was found to be associated with a drop of 23 per cent in the likelihood they will agree to get vaccinated.

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The truth about Covid jabs and cancer: After Piers Morgan's controversial claims about vaccines, we asked the experts. Here are their honest verdicts
6 days, 21 hours ago

The truth about Covid jabs and cancer: After Piers Morgan's controversial claims about vaccines, we asked the experts. Here are their honest verdicts

Daily Mail  

Billions of doses of ground-breaking Covid vaccines have been dished out globally since the early days of the pandemic. Wouldn’t doctors be raising the alarm if it turned out the vaccines – which almost all of us have had – cause cancer? Angus Dalgleish, a professor of oncology at St George’s, University of London, says he began seeing cancer returning …

COVID-19 gave rise to vaccine skepticism. That may affect our preparedness for the next pandemic
1 week ago

COVID-19 gave rise to vaccine skepticism. That may affect our preparedness for the next pandemic

NPR  

COVID-19 gave rise to vaccine skepticism. That may affect our preparedness for the next pandemic SARAH MCCAMMON, HOST: Americans have become more polarized about vaccines in the five years since the COVID-19 pandemic began. NPR's Jude Joffe-Block reports on the challenge this poses to combating public health threats. Motta traces a direct line from Trump's comments five years ago to …

Long covid effect? Conspiracy theories are alive and kicking in America
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Long covid effect? Conspiracy theories are alive and kicking in America

Live Mint  

Millions of Americans believe that invisible entities are driving the country’s domestic politics—shadowy deep-state actors that are allegedly controlling events, hiding toxins in our food and water and peddling dangerous and even deadly vaccines. These conspiracy theories have helped propel people like Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Junior to prominence with their promises to provide transparency and save us …

Covid-19 pandemic fueled vaccine misinformation – What experts are saying
2 months, 1 week ago

Covid-19 pandemic fueled vaccine misinformation – What experts are saying

Live Mint  

A fringe anti-vaccine movement took advantage of the Covid-19 pandemic to bring conspiracy theories to a much wider audience, propelling dangerous misinformation about life-saving jabs that still endures five years later, experts warn. "During this period, we observed several bubbles with normally well-defined borders converge towards anti-vaccine beliefs," said Romy Sauvayre, a French sociologist specialising in vaccine hesitancy. - 'Backbone …

Mixed lessons from intentionally infecting people with COVID-19
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Mixed lessons from intentionally infecting people with COVID-19

Salon  

When the Covid-19 pandemic first struck, Christopher Chiu and other researchers wondered: Should they inject healthy people with the virus that caused the pandemic? “With these challenge studies, you can really control for all of this and that makes them very, very unique.” In recent decades, challenge trials have become more scientifically rigorous but have continued to spark ethical concerns …

One-third of Americans don’t trust the COVID vaccines, survey finds
4 months, 3 weeks ago

One-third of Americans don’t trust the COVID vaccines, survey finds

Salon  

Across the U.S., 35% of adults reported that they did not trust COVID-19 vaccines, without much variation across years 2021-2023, according to a survey published in the journal Vaccine: X this week. Vaccine hesitancy is one piece of a growing distrust in public health exacerbated by the government’s pandemic response that many experts fear will only deepen with the new …

‘Dire implications’: Experts warn Trump could spark global health crisis with latest idea
4 months, 3 weeks ago

‘Dire implications’: Experts warn Trump could spark global health crisis with latest idea

Raw Story  

Over the weekend Donald Trump said he is considering a ban on not just vaccine mandates, but vaccines themselves—an extension of his embrace of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. He is expected to put RFK Jr., a known AIDS denialist and anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist and purveyor of vaccine misinformation who has likened the use of vaccines to the "holocaust," in charge …

COVID-19 vaccines: Much ado about known unknowns
10 months, 3 weeks ago

COVID-19 vaccines: Much ado about known unknowns

The Hindu  

There are things we know that we don’t know. This risk was identified and flagged back in 2021; packaging was modified to insert information associated with the side effects; even the WHO wrote about it first in May 2021 and then in 2023.Read Bindu Shajan Perapaddan’s report on the rare vaccine side-effect is “no secret” and they are “well aware …

Conspiracy Theories: Why we want to believe when the facts often aren’t there
1 year, 1 month ago

Conspiracy Theories: Why we want to believe when the facts often aren’t there

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — From fears about vaccines containing microchips to election rigging, conspiracy theories are popping up everywhere. Psychologists say conspiracy theories survive because humans have a basic need to explain the world around them. Many websites and personalities have embraced conspiracy theories to home in on that natural human need to attract audiences. The Associated Press undertook an examination of …

World leaders to meet to discuss threat of hypothetical ‘Disease X’ in Davos
1 year, 2 months ago

World leaders to meet to discuss threat of hypothetical ‘Disease X’ in Davos

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. It’s known by the placeholder name of Disease X, …

Burying the fallacy of vaccine sceptics
1 year, 4 months ago

Burying the fallacy of vaccine sceptics

Hindustan Times  

An Indian Council of Medical Research study has found that the spate of sudden deaths reported post-Covid among young adults in India could be because of past Covid hospitalisation, family history of sudden deaths, binge drinking, and intense unaccustomed activity. It should set at rest the harmful narrative based on anecdotes and rumours that Covid-19 vaccines caused these deaths. Covid-19 …

America's antivaxx crisis laid bare: A QUARTER believe MMR shot causes autism and a THIRD think the Covid vaccines killed thousands, poll finds
1 year, 7 months ago

America's antivaxx crisis laid bare: A QUARTER believe MMR shot causes autism and a THIRD think the Covid vaccines killed thousands, poll finds

Daily Mail  

The Kaiser Family Foundation surveyed 2,007 adults in an online poll this year America's growing anti-vaxx crisis has been laid bare in a national poll that shows huge chunks of the country believe in conspiracy theories about safe shots. The Kaiser Family Foundation poll also found that a third of adults believe that the Covid shots caused thousands of sudden …

People lost faith in childhood vaccines during Covid-19 pandemic, says UNICEF
1 year, 11 months ago

People lost faith in childhood vaccines during Covid-19 pandemic, says UNICEF

Live Mint  

LONDON: People all over the world lost confidence in the importance of routine childhood vaccines against killer diseases like measles and polio during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new report from UNICEF. The data was a "worrying warning signal" of rising vaccine hesitancy amid misinformation, dwindling trust in governments and political polarisation, UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fund, said. …

The long shadow of Covid-19 myths
2 years ago

The long shadow of Covid-19 myths

BBC  

The long shadow of Covid-19 myths Kang-Chun Cheng The reasons for vaccine hesitancy in Africa are complex, but it remains a challenge in the fight against Covid-19 Like in many countries, misinformation about Covid-19 has circulated widely in Morocco during the pandemic. "I have never dissuaded any Africans, nor any other person in the world from taking Covid-19 vaccines," Locht …

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week
2 years, 3 months ago

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The article suggests that these …

UK scientists dismissed Covid lab leak theory despite knowing it may be true: Report
2 years, 4 months ago

UK scientists dismissed Covid lab leak theory despite knowing it may be true: Report

Op India  

According to reports, experts in the United Kingdom aided in shutting down covid lab leak theory back in 2020. The article “The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2,” published in Nature Medicine in March 2020, stated that the pandemic was triggered by a natural breakout event, and was crucial in dampening debate about the virus’s origins. However, by the time the article …

Conspiracy theorists flock to bird flu, spreading falsehoods
2 years, 10 months ago

Conspiracy theorists flock to bird flu, spreading falsehoods

Associated Press  

Brad Moline, a fourth-generation Iowa turkey farmer, saw this happen before. “We certainly aren’t making this up.” Poultry farms drive the local economy in some parts of Wisconsin, Poulsen said, adding that a devastating outbreak of avian flu could create real hardships for farmers as well as consumers. Mercola’s interest in the bird flu dates back years A 2006 book …

‘Anti-science extremist’: Tory MP shut down for claiming Covid jabs ‘disaster in the making’
2 years, 11 months ago

‘Anti-science extremist’: Tory MP shut down for claiming Covid jabs ‘disaster in the making’

The Independent  

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One in 20 believe conspiracy theory that Covid released as part of depopulation plan is ‘definitely true’
3 years ago

One in 20 believe conspiracy theory that Covid released as part of depopulation plan is ‘definitely true’

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy One in 20 adults in …

Op-Ed: The anti-vax movement was already getting scary. COVID supercharged it
3 years, 1 month ago

Op-Ed: The anti-vax movement was already getting scary. COVID supercharged it

LA Times  

Conspiracy theorists’ disinformation has led to the deaths of thousands of Americans every week by discouraging COVID-19 vaccinations. One study found that people who believe “9/11 truther” theories are more likely than average to also believe COVID-19 vaccines are dangerous. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an influential anti-vaxxer, said at a recent rally in Washington: “Bill Gates and his 65,000 satellites …

Ex-senior SAGE scientist says we need vaccines that stop people spreading Covid
3 years, 1 month ago

Ex-senior SAGE scientist says we need vaccines that stop people spreading Covid

Daily Mail  

A former top Government scientific adviser today said the world needs vaccines that are better at stopping Covid transmission to truly end the pandemic. Sir Jeremy Farrar, a former top Government scientific adviser, called for the development of vaccines that were better able to block transmission of Covid The current crop of jabs 'must be celebrated' he said for severing …

COVID vaccines lower hospitalizations across the board, not just in the US
3 years, 2 months ago

COVID vaccines lower hospitalizations across the board, not just in the US

Associated Press  

CLAIM: Vaccines only reduce hospitalizations in the U.S., not in other countries. At the conference, McCullough said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is conducting academic fraud and that COVID-19 vaccines are not effective at preventing hospitalization from COVID-19. One post sharing the clip of McCullough read, “CDC data purporting to show a reduction in hospitalization following Covid vaccination …

Europe considers new COVID-19 strategy: Accepting the virus
3 years, 2 months ago

Europe considers new COVID-19 strategy: Accepting the virus

Associated Press  

MADRID — When the coronavirus pandemic was first declared, Spaniards were ordered to stay home for more than three months. Speaking at a World Economic Forum panel on Monday, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top infectious diseases doctor in the U.S., said COVID-19 could not be considered endemic until it drops to “a level that it doesn’t disrupt society.” The European …

FACT FOCUS: Unfounded theory used to dismiss COVID measures
3 years, 2 months ago

FACT FOCUS: Unfounded theory used to dismiss COVID measures

Associated Press  

An unfounded theory taking root online suggests millions of people have been “hypnotized” into believing mainstream ideas about COVID-19, including steps to combat it such as testing and vaccination. In widely shared social media posts this week, efforts to combat the disease have been dismissed with just three words: “mass formation psychosis.” “I’m not a scientist but I’m pretty sure …

‘False sense of security’ around COVID vaccines: WHO
3 years, 4 months ago

‘False sense of security’ around COVID vaccines: WHO

Al Jazeera  

WHO chief says many vaccinated people wrongly think they no longer need to take other precautions against COVID. The chief of the World Health Organization has warned that the COVID-19 pandemic is not yet over and that some people were falling into a “false sense of security” after being vaccinated against the virus. In a news briefing in Geneva on …

Covid misinformation is everywhere
3 years, 4 months ago

Covid misinformation is everywhere

CNN  

New York CNN Business — The information landscape about Covid-19 is bewildering, with factual and fictional claims competing for attention. “Most commonly,” the report’s authors wrote, “six in ten adults have heard that the government is exaggerating the number of Covid-19 deaths by counting deaths due to other factors as coronavirus deaths and either believe this to be true or …

How to fight COVID vaccine misinformation?
3 years, 5 months ago

How to fight COVID vaccine misinformation?

Al Jazeera  

Opposition to vaccination is as old as vaccination itself. Although vaccines save five lives every minute, and even though 85 percent of children worldwide are vaccinated against diphtheria, tetanus, and whooping cough, some people are resisting the life-saving shots. Although this opposition has not prevented many countries from reaching very high vaccine uptake – for example in Spain, nearly 80 …

People who got Covid-19 vaccines were less likely to die from any cause compared to unvaccinated people, study finds
3 years, 5 months ago

People who got Covid-19 vaccines were less likely to die from any cause compared to unvaccinated people, study finds

CNN  

CNN — People who got Covid-19 vaccines were not only less likely to die from the virus, but they were less likely to die from any cause over the following months, researchers reported Friday. That’s in addition to the mounting evidence from other studies showing that the COVID-19 vaccines are effective against COVID-19 infection, serious illness, and death.” The team …

What Can Convince People to Just Get Vaccinated Already?
3 years, 5 months ago

What Can Convince People to Just Get Vaccinated Already?

Wired  

How do we get to yes? Which is to say: How can public health experts and policymakers convince the persistently recalcitrant fraction of people who haven’t gotten vaccinated against Covid-19? People got randomized into groups that heard different approaches to talking about vaccines, and there was a control group of people who didn’t see any of the messages being tested. …

Opinion: The pandemic is being weaponized
3 years, 6 months ago

Opinion: The pandemic is being weaponized

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Frida Ghitis a former CNN producer and correspondent, is a world affairs columnist. But there’s one key reason why the world’s wealthiest nation, home to many of the planet’s top public health experts, is the red-hot bubbling epicenter of a pandemic that just won’t quit. After Biden revealed his six-step plan against the still raging pandemic, which includes …

Why you shouldn't be concerned when more vaccinated people are getting infected than unvaccinated
3 years, 7 months ago

Why you shouldn't be concerned when more vaccinated people are getting infected than unvaccinated

ABC  

CoronaCheck is RMIT ABC Fact Check's weekly email newsletter dedicated to fighting the misinformation infodemic surrounding the coronavirus outbreak. As the Washington Post pointed out: "The latest numbers show that 85 per cent of Israeli adults are vaccinated, meaning there are more than five times as many of them as unvaccinated people." "Importantly, it is likely that a significant chunk …

A landslide majority of American adults have been vaccinated. Here’s how that stacks up against other commonplace activities.
3 years, 7 months ago

A landslide majority of American adults have been vaccinated. Here’s how that stacks up against other commonplace activities.

CNN  

CNN — The US has now vaccinated 70% of adults with at least one shot against Covid-19, according to the latest data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, belatedly reaching a milestone the Biden administration had hoped to hit by July 4. With coronavirus cases again surging among unvaccinated Americans and America’s vaccination rate now lagging behind …

‘This is genocide’: Inside the bizarre rise of coronavirus conspiracy theories
3 years, 8 months ago

‘This is genocide’: Inside the bizarre rise of coronavirus conspiracy theories

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “Because they’re part of it too.” Welcome to the West Yorkshire leg of the …

Europe tried to boost Covid-19 vaccine takeup with carrots. Now some leaders are breaking out the sticks
3 years, 8 months ago

Europe tried to boost Covid-19 vaccine takeup with carrots. Now some leaders are breaking out the sticks

CNN  

London CNN — As the pace of Covid-19 vaccinations in Europe shows signs of a slowdown, leaders are racing to find answers to a key dilemma of the rollout’s next phase: how to convince reluctant citizens to roll up their sleeves. France’s Minister of State for European Affairs Clement Beaune said the soaring bookings showed “that amongst people that were …

Misinformation is killing people. Here’s the truth about COVID vaccines
3 years, 8 months ago

Misinformation is killing people. Here’s the truth about COVID vaccines

LA Times  

Surgeon General Vivek Murthy issued his first formal health advisory last week, warning Americans that misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines poses an “imminent and insidious threat to our nation’s health.” Such advisories are typically used to flag the dangers of tobacco use or the opioid epidemic. “Somebody who had COVID at the beginning of the pandemic may have had a very …

US steps up fight against COVID-19 misinformation
3 years, 8 months ago

US steps up fight against COVID-19 misinformation

Al Jazeera  

The effort comes as the pace of COVID-19 vaccinations has slowed throughout the US, due in part to false claims. US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy on Thursday called for a national effort to fight misinformation about COVID-19 and vaccines, urging tech companies, health care workers, journalists and everyday Americans to do more to address a problem “that cost us lives”. …

The picture is clear, it is top-down misinformation
3 years, 9 months ago

The picture is clear, it is top-down misinformation

The Hindu  

When asked what source of false or misleading information about the novel coronavirus they are most concerned about, many more Indians highlight domestic political actors than worry about activist groups, foreign governments, or journalists. ‘Network propaganda’ Study after study around the world has found such “ network propaganda ”, where misinformation is spread by some top politicians, nakedly partisan news …

Vaccine misinformation travels many times faster than Covid – and it will continue to cost lives
3 years, 9 months ago

Vaccine misinformation travels many times faster than Covid – and it will continue to cost lives

The Independent  

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Global equitable access to coronavirus vaccines …

No evidence COVID-19 vaccines create new virus variants
3 years, 10 months ago

No evidence COVID-19 vaccines create new virus variants

Associated Press  

CLAIM: The variants of the coronavirus that have been found in the global population were created by COVID-19 vaccines, which made antibodies that forced the virus to evolve. “Bombshell: Nobel Prize Winner Reveals - Covid Vaccine is ‘Creating Variants,’” reads the headline of the article, which has been shared more than 6,000 times on Facebook since May 18. The article …

Understanding what drives conspiracy theories, in the context of COVID-19 in India and political beliefs
3 years, 10 months ago

Understanding what drives conspiracy theories, in the context of COVID-19 in India and political beliefs

Firstpost  

When believing in conspiracies also makes you believe that you are unlikely to get the virus, it is indeed dangerous. Conspiratorial thinking usually makes one believe that someone, usually a powerful “other”, is hiding something important about an otherwise unexplained situation, from them. In the context of the pandemic, we have seen how certain religious and/or occupational groups, particularly those …

Op-Ed: How ‘my body, my choice’ came to define the vaccine skepticism movement
3 years, 10 months ago

Op-Ed: How ‘my body, my choice’ came to define the vaccine skepticism movement

LA Times  

A protester at a London demonstration against the use of vaccine passports carries an umbrella with a phrase that became famous as a reproductive choice slogan. Vaccine-skeptical groups, including the Tennessee Coalition for Vaccine Choice and Texans for Medical Freedom, have lifted the language and syntax of reproductive choice to promote their own agendas. In tracking vaccine hesitancy in online …

World could have prevented COVID-19 catastrophe: Expert panel
3 years, 10 months ago

World could have prevented COVID-19 catastrophe: Expert panel

Al Jazeera  

Report by Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response says ‘toxic cocktail’ of dithering and poor coordination means warning signs went unheeded. An independent panel has concluded that the catastrophic scale of the coronavirus pandemic could have been prevented but a “toxic cocktail” of dithering and poor coordination meant the warning signs went unheeded. Early responses to the outbreak detected …

Confidence grows that COVID-19 vaccines hold their own against variants
3 years, 10 months ago

Confidence grows that COVID-19 vaccines hold their own against variants

LA Times  

Confidence is growing that COVID-19 vaccines authorized for use in the U.S. are holding their own against the coronavirus variants now in circulation. “Everything we’ve seen with the variants should provide marked reassurance, as far as the protection that is afforded by vaccines — particularly the vaccines that we have in the United States,” said Dr. Eric Topol, director of …

Op-Ed: How conspiracy theories about COVID-19 prey on Latinos
3 years, 10 months ago

Op-Ed: How conspiracy theories about COVID-19 prey on Latinos

LA Times  

Last year, I was working on a coronavirus story for the PBS NewsHour when my father texted me a since-removed YouTube video titled, “How to wipe out the corona virus THT in 10 min.” A chiropractor with a graying beard named John Bergman — with more than half a million YouTube subscribers and an office in Huntington Beach — said …

Only 2 ‘breakthrough’ infections among hundreds of fully vaccinated people, new study finds
3 years, 11 months ago

Only 2 ‘breakthrough’ infections among hundreds of fully vaccinated people, new study finds

CNN  

CNN — For fully vaccinated people, the risk of still getting Covid-19 – described as “breakthrough infections” – remains extremely low, a new study out of New York suggests. Among 417 employees at Rockefeller University who were fully vaccinated with either the Pfizer or Moderna shots, two of them or about.5%, had breakthrough infections later, according to the study published …

Covid-19 has shown us what conspiracy theories can do
3 years, 11 months ago

Covid-19 has shown us what conspiracy theories can do

Live Mint  

Daniel Roberts hadn’t had a vaccination since he was 6. I guess I chose to believe the facts.” As the world struggles to break the grip of COVID-19, psychologists and misinformation experts are studying why the pandemic spawned so many conspiracy theories, which have led people to eschew masks, social distancing and vaccines. “People need big explanations for big problems, …

Viral thoughts: Why COVID-19 conspiracy theories persist
3 years, 11 months ago

Viral thoughts: Why COVID-19 conspiracy theories persist

Associated Press  

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Daniel Roberts hadn’t had a vaccination since he was 6. I guess I chose to believe the facts.” As the world struggles to break the grip of COVID-19, psychologists and misinformation experts are studying why the pandemic spawned so many conspiracy theories, which have led people to eschew masks, social distancing and vaccines. “People need big explanations …

US official warns of ‘impending doom’ amid rise in COVID cases
4 years ago

US official warns of ‘impending doom’ amid rise in COVID cases

Al Jazeera  

US is averaging 63,000 new daily infections as of Monday, as coronavirus vaccine distribution continues. A top health official in the United States has warned of “impending doom” amid rising cases of COVID-19, even as the country continues to outpace expectations on vaccine distribution. During a news conference on Monday, Dr Rochelle Walensky, head of the Centers for Disease Control …

Here’s why experts say the US may be fooled by improving Covid-19 numbers and what that means for the summer
4 years ago

Here’s why experts say the US may be fooled by improving Covid-19 numbers and what that means for the summer

CNN  

CNN — Covid-19 numbers may be on the decline in the United States after a year of collective grief. “I think we are going to get fooled,” Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia said Thursday. “I think what’s going to happen is you’re going to see that as we enter the …

Why easing COVID-19 restrictions too soon could be a boon for coronavirus variants
4 years ago

Why easing COVID-19 restrictions too soon could be a boon for coronavirus variants

LA Times  

Pam Nestande shops at Hemline Austin on Wednesday, the day Texas lifted its COVID-19 mask mandate. So while we’re vaccinating people, we want to make sure there’s less and less virus circulating that doesn’t put our vaccine efficacy at risk.” March and April “are critical periods here,” Walensky added. “This finding underscores the need to limit subsequent waves of infection …

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