Last week, the Maternal Mental Health Task Force recommended creating maternity care centers to combat the maternal mental health crisis, as cases of postpartum depression have dramatically increased since 2010. News articles about this recommendation, which have been circulating on social media, explain that there is inadequate screening and support...
A Utah woman who claims she became disabled after participating in AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine trial is suing AstraZeneca. She claims that the company breached its contract by failing to adequately cover the medical expenses associated with her alleged vaccine injury. After the New York Post covered this woman’s...
Last week, multiple media outlets reported that overdose deaths in the United States have declined slightly for the first time in five years, according to preliminary data from the CDC. This news prompted discussion across multiple social media platforms. Some social media users celebrated the decline in overdose deaths and...
Last week, a “health freedom” group in Michigan shared a social media post claiming, without evidence, that a 17-year-old girl died shortly after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine. Comments on the post express concerns about vaccine mandates for students. One social media user wrote, “They are still requiring healthy young kids...
Louisiana recently passed a bill that would ban the World Health Organization, United Nations, and World Economic Forum from having “any jurisdiction or power” within the state. Some social media users and “health freedom” groups are hoping that this bill will prevent Louisiana from being affected by the WHO pandemic...
Last week, a New York-based social media user with a large following shared a viral series of posts celebrating the importance of vaccines. She wrote that she once contracted whooping cough as an adult after her childhood whooping cough vaccine wore off. Her 2 misdiagnosed her with asthma, which resulted...
A new JAMA study found that COVID-19 remains deadlier than the flu, with 35 percent higher mortality in hospitalized patients between October 2023 and March 2024. Although the overall risk of death from COVID-19 has declined over time, it is still “substantially higher” than the risk of death from the...
A Utah woman who claims she became disabled after participating in AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine trial is suing AstraZeneca. She claims that the company breached its contract by failing to adequately cover the medical expenses associated with her alleged vaccine injury. After the New York Post covered this woman’s...
Several social media posts in both English and Spanish resurfaced the misleading claim that health insurance programs “bribed” doctors to administer COVID-19 vaccines. A far-right site posted a video of an anti-vaccine doctor “revealing” that “doctors were being bribed to push” the vaccine. Recommendation: This misleading claim has been circulating...
A conspiracy theory circulating in English and Spanish claims without evidence that a recent assassination attempt on Slovakia’s prime minister is related to his opposition to COVID-19 vaccines and the WHO pandemic treaty. A U.S. congressperson and other high-profile figures shared a viral post that falsely claims that...