and flagging misinformation. anything it deems is false. and now going a step further, pushing the platform to censor our posts. we are in regular touch with these social media platforms and those engagements typically happen through members of our senior staff but also members of our covid-19 team given doctor conveyed it is a big issue on misinformation on the pandemic. we have done it within the surgeon general s office and flagging problem posts for facebook that spread this information. harris: republicans say this is a shocking admission. what they are seeking to do is take away your first amendment rights and have a thought police or a language police. we need to realize they re doing away with the first amendment is one of their goals. private for-profit corporations can make their own decisions, when it does it in collusion with government it looks to me an awful lot like a first amendment violation. i think this kind of coordination between big government
how does that make sense? we were just told get vaccinated, lose the mask. we were just told businesses to rehire their staff and get back to work. and they did. and we went to their workplace. enough to that vaccines are open to everywhere and information expertise are everywhere, why does it matter how many covid cases we have in this country now that we have a choice in how to handle our personal health including vaccines, distances, mask, why do we need the president of the united states and facebook to shut us down and shut down our lives once again? and for those of you who think it s just a california problem, you are wrong. it s now a las vegas problem and soon every liberal city will soon follow suit. we have seen this movie. let s get this straight. 97% of covid hospitalizations are unvaccinated people who, by the way, made their own choice not to be vaccinated. and if you need a reason to get vaccinated, i guess you just got one. but, since when do we count on the
down 46%. why is there still hesitancy to get the vaccine? i ll ask my guest. and zombie fires are becoming more common as the planet warms, but a new study is giving firefighters a serious advantage. thanks for joining me this hour. it is now 11 a.m. in israel and gaza. the cease-fire that began early friday is entering its second day. it is an uneasy peace, and tensions certainly remain high. friday prayers at the mosque in jerusalem ended with israeli police sweeping through the plaza in an aggressive show of force. the police said they were responding to a riot by palestinians and used stun grenade and rubber bullets to drive people out. the palestinians report 20 people were hurt. israel opened a key border crossing friday to allow humanitarian aid into gaza. among the shipments was a mobile hospital. the u.n. announced it s sending more than $22 million of aid including food, medical supplies, and covid vaccines. we re joined from jerusalemment good to see you. what
so you can get onto amazon and preorder that. heidi larson is a professor of anthropology at school of tropical medicine and founding director of the vaccine confident project headquartered at the one school of hygiene and tropical medicine and she s an author and wrote about how vaccine rumors start and why they don t go away. to moderate the discussion we have scott rosenstein. he and i have worked together for many, many years. he s also the special adviser of global health to the erasure group. they will engage in conversation about 30, 35 minutes and we you can use q&a. you can use the raise the hand icon or type in the chat box. please ask a question. don t make a speech and with that i m going to hand it over to scott. thank you so much for joining us scott. super, thanks so much, it s really an honor to host two incredibly accomplished voices in global health to really help us process all of this happened over the last year but also talk about where it s goingll and
challenges faced by social media companies in managing the transmission of fault information, content about vaccines really rose to the surface. over the next few months, as the covid-19 outbreak transformed into a global pandemic, we narrowed our geographic focus to the united states, and we narrowed our ski namic schematic focus propelled by misinformation and disinformation within the context of the pandemic might pose for national security. and we recognized that the issues were multidisciplinary and they required expertise from many different sectors. we decided to launch what came to be called the lemon school of hygiene and tropical medicine panel on vaccine confidence and misinformation. since the project has unfolded i have been fortunate to work with the panels co-chair stephen morrison, senior vice president and director of the global health policy center, and the professor of risk and decision science and director of the vaccine confidence project at the lemon s