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Opinion: Make Covid-19 testing an empowering choice rather than a draconian punishment

Public health is at its best when it is pragmatic in the face of complex problems fraught with stigma and uncertainty, like moving in the direction of full vaccination in the face of many Americans’ entrenched or even defiant anti-vaccination sentiment.

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Disinformation campaign: China tries to blame Covid on Maine lobsters

In mid-September, Marcel Schliebs, a disinformation researcher at the University of Oxford who had been tracking messaging that Chinese diplomats and state media spread on Twitter for 18 months, spotted the emergence of a surprising coronavirus origin theory.  

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Combating Misinformation and Disinformation for COVID-19 and Future Public Health Threats Webinar Wednesday, October 20, 2021 1:00PM-2:00 PM ET

Combating Misinformation and Disinformation for COVID-19 and Future Public Health Threats

Wednesday, October 20, 2021

1:00PM-2:00 PM ET

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Join us Wednesday, October 20, at 1pm (ET) for the Capitol Hill Steering Committee on Pandemic Preparedness and Health Security webinar: Combating Misinformation and Disinformation for COVID-19 and Future Public Health Threats.

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A different approach to reach vaccination holdouts in rural areas

 As rural counties in Pennsylvania continue to see lower COVID-19 vaccination rates than other parts of the state, three organizations have deployed a unique approach to hopefully reach more holdouts.
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Telehealth has rapidly expanded but still struggling to reach rural U.S. populations

Despite the wide-ranging expansion of telehealth in the past year, there is still a broad swath of the U.S. population it has largely failed to reach: the 57 million people in rural parts of the country. ...

 

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Ivermectin disinformation causes wide variety of problems.

An avalanche of misinformation about the antiparasitic drug ivermectin’s ability to treat COVID-19 has caused a series of national problems, from increased calls to poisoning centers to a shortage of the medicine itself.

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