PARIS, Jan 20 — A fringe anti-vaccine movement took advantage of the Covid-19 pandemic to bring conspiracy theories to a much wider audience, propelling dangerous misinformation...
Epidemiologist Meg Schaeffer told AFP that “misinformation around Covid” is driving down overall vaccination rates in the United States, including for long-conquered measles. — Reuters file picas a first-time user .
Vaccine scepticism suddenly had a much larger audience, bringing together people across swathes of the political spectrum. Donald Trump, who was US president at the time and will be inaugurated again on Monday, was among those who then promoted the drug. Trump’s pick for health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has repeatedly spread anti-vaccine conspiracies, including suggesting that Covid is an “ethnically targeted” virus.
Noel Brewer, a public health professor at the University of North Carolina and one of the authors of The Lancet study, said that “social media has been the backbone of vaccine misinformation efforts”.The consequences of this mass misinformation are difficult to calculate.
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