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‘Civil war of public health’: Florida pediatrician raises alarm on elimination of mandated vaccines
MSNBC· 2025-09-04 21:00
After Florida's surgeon general said he was removing all state vaccine mandates, including those required for children to attend schools, more states are deciding to go it alone on vaccines. Officials in California, Oregon, and Washington are banding together to provide their own vaccine recommendations after Health Secretary RFK Jr. . replaced CDC's advisory panel.Eight states in the Northwest, Northeast, excuse me, are doing something similar. What's clear is that the US is headed toward two very differen ...
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Bloomberg· 2025-08-22 16:50
Vaccination confers immunity to infants and helps protect newborns in the first months of life, ACOG said https://t.co/i9EN21zPdW ...
Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics | Arjun Kapoor | TEDxJells Park Youth
TEDx Talks· 2025-08-22 15:32
Arjun Kapoor who is a math lover and a social observer who challenges how we interpret data in a world overflowing with statistics. He's a published mathematician and is part of the National Essafety Youth Council. I'd now like to call upon Arjun Kapoor who' be talking about lies, damn lies and statistics. Lies, damn lies and statistics.Arjun Kapoor over to you. [Applause] >> Hello. Imagine it's the late 1600s.Isaac Newton is inventing calculus literally inventing it to describe the motion of planets. Aroun ...
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The Wall Street Journal· 2025-08-19 15:42
A prominent pediatrician group is recommending parents inoculate their young children against Covid-19, diverging from current federal health leaders who have questioned and shifted the guidance for the shots for kids https://t.co/mxTvWuAiHM ...
From Innovation to Impact: Scaling Breakthroughs to Save Lives | Dr. Obidi Ezezika | TEDxMcMasterU
TEDx Talks· 2025-08-18 15:28
Growing up in Nigeria, I witnessed the ecological devastation caused by oil spills across the country. And this led me after my first degree in the sciences to work with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC. This is the state-owned company that is responsible for the production, exploration, and marketing of petroleum products.During that time, I served a team that was remediating oil spills across the country. And I realized the role that microbiology could play in the remediation of oil spill ...
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The Economist· 2025-08-14 06:00
Vaccination rates have fallen in all of Britain’s child-immunisation programmes. But the drop is sharpest for HPV, despite unequivocal scientific evidence of the jab’s effectiveness https://t.co/dG5iaS9YGiIllustration: Mariaelena Caputi/Shutterstock https://t.co/kkcSwuLljU ...
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The Economist· 2025-08-13 18:40
Vaccination rates have fallen in all of Britain’s child-immunisation programmes. But the drop is sharpest for HPV, despite unequivocal scientific evidence of the jab’s effectiveness https://t.co/mEL1p5VEkZ ...
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The Wall Street Journal· 2025-08-08 10:22
As measles vaccination rates fall and infections rise, scientists are developing drugs they say could prevent or treat the disease in vulnerable and unvaccinated people https://t.co/S6e4zArdnN ...
New back-to-school warning as whooping cough cases rise
NBC News· 2025-08-03 23:55
Cases of whooping cough spreading across the US, especially the Carolinas. And it's coming at a concerning time as millions of kids head back to classrooms. It can be a very severe disease.It's technically called pertasus and it's a bacterial infection causing severe coughing. My hospital, we had no cases in 2023, 13 in 2024, and already this year, and we're only halfway through the year, we've had 27. More than six times as many whooping cough cases were reported last year compared to 2023 according to the ...