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Published by: The Gauntlet
Published on: August 23, 2023
By Julia Doubleday

“Disabled, sick, immunocompromised and vulnerable people seeking care at a hospital, have the right not to be exposed to a virus that has killed 1.1 million Americans in 3.5 years. They have the right to seek care without having to fear that their care team will quite literally kill them with a preventable illness. Practitioners, on the other hand, have no right to compare the irritation of having to wear a mask at work with the moral injury of infecting vulnerable people who then go on to die at high rates.”

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$66.6M lawsuit filed by anti-vaccine activist thrown out of court

Published August 11, 2023

Published by: CBC News
Published on: August 11, 2023
By Karin Larsen

Lawsuit filed by former family doctor Daniel Nagase ruled to be frivoulous, vexatious and an abuse of process.

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Column: RFK Jr. gets around to blaming the Jews

Published July 17, 2023

Published by: Los Angeles Times
Published on: July 17, 2023
By Michael Hiltzik

It has been well noted that, whatever their starting points, conspiracy theorists sooner or later get around to blaming the Jews.

During a press dinner in New York last week, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is hoping to convert his portfolio of chuckleheaded conspiracy theories about COVID-19 and all sorts of other things into the semblance of a presidential campaign, went there last week.

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How Joe Rogan’s vaccine-debate pitch undermines real science

Published July 4, 2023

Published by: Ottawa Citizen
Published on: July 4, 2023
By Raywat Deonandan

Most politicians know that in any public debate, persuasion, charm and oratory count more than do mere facts.

Don’t believe those who claim science proves masks don’t work

Published February 27, 2023

Published by: The Guardian
Published on: February 27, 2023
By Lucky Tran

Masks have played a key role in keeping us all safe throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. At the start, masks helped flatten the curve to protect our hospital systems, and since, masks have helped make public spaces and essential services more open and accessible to everyone. Many studies show that masks work, and they work best when everyone wears a high-quality one to protect each other. Masks are magnificent.

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Yes, masks reduce the risk of spreading COVID, despite a review saying they don’t

Published February 6, 2023

Published by: The Conversation
Published on: February 6, 2023
By C Raina MacIntyre, Abrar Ahmad Chughtai, David Fisman, Trish Greenhalgh

There is strong and consistent evidence for the effectiveness of masks and (even more so) respirators in protecting against respiratory infections. Masks are an important protection against serious infections.

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Viral spread: Peter Hotez on the increase of anti-science aggression on social media

Published January 30, 2023

Published by: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Published on: January 30, 2023
By Sara Goudarzi

Last November, Twitter announced it will no longer enforce “the COVID-19 misleading information policy.” The platform also allowed previously banned users to rejoin the site. Since then, anti-vaccination messaging has gained renewed energy, distressing scientists and researchers who have been combatting misinformation and disinformation on social media.

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Anti-vaccine activism melded with US antisemitism – study

Published January 29, 2023

Published by: The Jerusalem Post
Published on: January 29, 2023
By Judy Siegel-Itzkovich

Because of rising anti-vaccine activism and some key global policy missteps, more than 70 years of global health gains are in danger of being eroded, according to a physician writing in the peer-reviewed Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal published by the Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa.

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Antisemitism surges during pandemic

Published January 26, 2023

Published by: The Whig Standard
Published on: January 26, 2023
By Geoffrey P. Johnston

“International Holocaust Remembrance Day is important to recognize, because it commemorates arguably the worst-case scenario for a liberal democracy,” declared Daniel Panneton, director of allyship and community engagement at the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies.

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Ten COVID Facts Health Officials Dangerously Downplay

Published December 21, 2022

Published by: The Tyee
Published on: December 21, 2022
By Andrew Nikiforuk

Do not listen to powers that be who pretend that getting infected with COVID multiple times is now no big deal. They’re asking you to lower your guard for a nasty virus that can invade the brain, disregulate the immune system and damage the vascular system.

This strategy has led to predictable results — more direct deaths, more excess deaths, more disease and some 1.4 million Canadians reporting some form of long COVID over the last two years.

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How COVID Truthers Breathed New Life Into an Antisemitic Symbol

Published November 29, 2022

Published by: Vice
Published on: November 29, 2022
By Tim Hume

The widespread appropriation by COVID truthers of the yellow star that the Nazis forced Jews to wear is a sign that public displays of antisemitism have become normalised in modern Germany to an unthinkable degree, experts say.

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Sweden’s Deadly COVID Failure

Published April 6, 2022

Published by: The Tyee
Published on: April 6, 2022
By Andrew Nikiforuk

The verdict is in on the nation’s light touch approach. More died. Herd immunity proved a mirage.

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Anti-vaccine protest in Canada spurs outrage

Published February 1, 2022

Published by: The Associated Press
Published on: February 1, 2022
By Rob Gillies

In a scene at odds with Canadians’ reputation for niceness and rule-following, thousands of protesters railing against vaccine mandates and other COVID-19 restrictions descended on the capital over the weekend, deliberately blocking traffic around Parliament Hill.

Some urinated and parked on the National War Memorial. One danced on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. A number carried signs and flags with swastikas.

In the aftermath of Canada’s biggest pandemic protest to date, the demonstrators have found little sympathy in a country where more than 80% are vaccinated. Many people were outraged by some of the crude behavior.

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The 60-Year-Old Scientific Screwup That Helped Covid Kill

Published May 13, 2021

Published by: Wired
Published on: May 13, 2021
By Megan Molteni

Early one morning, Linsey Marr tiptoed to her dining room table, slipped on a headset, and fired up Zoom. On her computer screen, dozens of familiar faces began to appear. She also saw a few people she didn’t know, including Maria Van Kerkhove, the World Health Organization’s technical lead for Covid-19, and other expert advisers to the WHO. It was just past 1 pm Geneva time on April 3, 2020, but in Blacksburg, Virginia, where Marr lives with her husband and two children, dawn was just beginning to break.

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