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Surgeon general warns misinformation an 'urgent threat' to public health:
The surgeon general on Thursday warned Americans about what he called the "urgent threat of health misinformation" amid the government's current push to boost stalling vaccination rates.
Dr. Vivek Murthy's advisory -- the first under the Biden administration -- addresses an epidemic of misinformation and disinformation, and its pernicious impact on public health -- specifically threatening the U.S. response to COVID-19. It frames misinformation as having hindered vaccination efforts, sown mistrust, caused people to reject public health measures, use unproven treatments, prolonged the pandemic and put lives at risk.
"Surgeon general advisories are reserved for urgent public health threats," Murthy said, highlighting his message in the White House briefing room Thursday. "And while those threats have often been related to what we eat, drink and smoke, today, we live in a world where misinformation poses an imminent and insidious threat to our nation's health."
He continued, "While it often appears innocuous on social media apps on retail sites or search engines -- the truth is that misinformation takes away our freedom to make informed decisions about our health and the health of our loved ones. Simply put, health misinformation has cost us lives."
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 18 2021, @05:50AM (5 children)
The existing vaccines do nothing to stop the spread of virus.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/over-1000-covid-cases-recorded-friday-in-nearly-4-month-high/ [timesofisrael.com]
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-51768274 [bbc.com]
Can you please stop lying?
(Score: 2) by turgid on Sunday July 18 2021, @02:03PM (1 child)
Can you please stop being disingenuous?
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 18 2021, @06:42PM
Is it the best "counter" you could invent? So sad. You guys are your own worst enemies, with your well-rounded utter ineptitude.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 18 2021, @02:24PM (1 child)
And they're not really supposed to, you need much, much higher rates of vaccinations to see that. Vaccines are supposed to reduce the harm if you do get infected and slow the rate of transmission to the point where there's nobody to spread it to. And that is happening already, virtually all the deaths are coming from people that didn't get their shots.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 18 2021, @06:50PM
Even if true, in what way is it any relevant to: The existing vaccines do nothing to stop the spread of virus. ?
It was spread, not mortality, that GP poster was weeping his crocodile tears about.
(Score: 2) by ChrisMaple on Tuesday July 20 2021, @04:30AM
It is you who is lying. The first citation states that the vaccine alone does not stop the spread of the virus. If you'd bother to think, you'd see that the implication is that the vaccine helps.