On the deadliest day of a horrific week in April 2020, COVID took the lives of 816 people in New York City alone. Lost in the blizzard of pandemic data that's been swirling ever since is the fact that 43-year-old Fernando Morales was one of them.
Two years and nearly 1 million deaths later, his b
On the deadliest day of a horrific week in April 2020, COVID took the lives of 816 people in New York City alone. Lost in the blizzard of pandemic data that s been swirling ever since is the fact that 43-year-old Fernando Morales was one of them.
In some cases, anti-vaccine activists are fabricating stories of deaths that never occurred.
âThis is exactly what anti-vaccine groups do,â said Dr. Peter Hotez, an infectious diseases specialist and author of âPreventing the Next Pandemic: Vaccine Diplomacy in a Time of Anti-Science.â
Anti-vaccine groups have falsely claimed for decades that childhood vaccines cause autism, weaving fantastic conspiracy theories involving government, Big Business and the media.
Now, the same groups are blaming patientsâ coincidental medical problems on COVID-19 shots, even when itâs clear that age or underlying health conditions are to blame, Hotez said. âThey will sensationalize anything that happens after someone gets a vaccine and attribute it to the vaccine,â Hotez said.
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