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Disinformation issue: Anti-vax group in Europe thrives online

Fri, 2022-08-19 09:27 — mike kraft

Anti-vax group in Europe thrives online, thwarts tech effort Troubled by the number of unvaccinated COVID-19 patients showing up at his hospital, the French doctor logged on to Facebook and uploaded a video urging people to get vaccinated. AP NEWS

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He was soon swarmed by dozens, then hundreds, then more than 1,000 hateful messages from an anti-vaccine extremist group known as V_V. The group, active in France and Italy, has harassed doctors and public health officials, vandalized government offices and tried to disrupt vaccine clinics. ...

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Facebook, Instragram take down page for anti-vaccination organization run by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Thu, 2022-08-18 17:40 — mike kraft

Facebook takes down page for anti-vaccination organization run by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Meta on Wednesday took down the Facebook page and Instagram account for Children’s Health Defense, an anti-vaccination organization headed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., due to what it referred to… jchoi The Hill

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Opinion: How to Control the 'Information Fire Hose' of the Pandemic

Mon, 2022-06-27 12:50 — mike kraft

Opinion | How to Control the 'Information Fire Hose' of the Pandemic Government agencies need to hire a narrative officer Randy Olson, PhD medpagetoday

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Throughout the pandemic the biomedical community has unleashed a veritable fire hose of information on the public. Experts of all sorts have appeared on national television with countless explanations of the science. But for most of the public, it has simply been TMI: too much information. Not TMI of the silly personal type, but rather the more dangerous public health variety.

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More than 1,000 monkeypox cases reported to WHO

Wed, 2022-06-08 12:57 — FNUOvviyaa

More than 1,000 monkeypox cases reported to WHO - briefing There have been more than 1,000 monkeypox cases reported to the World Health Organization in the current outbreak outside the countries in Africa where it more commonly spreads. Mrinalika Roy,Jennifer Rigby Reuters

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Webinar today, 11 AM ET: Enabling Population-Scale Diagnostic Testing for COVID-19 and Future Infectious Disease Outbreaks--Johns Hopkins

Wed, 2022-03-30 09:16 — mike kraft

Enabling Population-Scale Diagnostic Testing for COVID-19 and Future Infectious Disease Outbreaks

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Data dashboards have been an important part of pandemic response and planning. What have their developers learned?

Fri, 2022-03-25 17:40 — mike kraft

Lessons from the COVID data wizards Nature - Data dashboards have been an important part of pandemic response and planning. What have their developers learnt about communicating science in a crisis? Peeples, Lynne nature

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A surprising link between Covid-19 deaths and lack of internet access --study

Fri, 2022-03-18 11:10 — mike kraft

The surprising link between Covid-19 deaths and ... internet access The case for treating internet access as a health necessity. Keren Landman Vox

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Florida cuts COVID data reporting to every 2 weeks

Wed, 2022-03-16 11:47 — mike kraft

Florida limits COVID data to every 2 weeks, state says via meme Department of Health officials announced the change via Twitter, using Vince McMahon and cat memes. Tampa Bay Times

Florida officials have again rolled back access to the state’s COVID-19 data, and will now only release key pandemic metrics such as the number of people who have been infected, died and vaccinated once every two weeks instead of every week.

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