4. The Politics of Health: Public Health & Misinformation

Facts, data and analytics about biomedical matters

A lack of testing data and government guidance led many to avoid the COVID-19 vaccine during pregnancy, unwittingly increasing their chances of a stillbirth.

A panel of experts answer questions about vaccines, omicron and other COVID-related issues in a discussion with The Conversation.

Even if you've had COVID-19, the vaccine provides substantial protection against reinfection, a new study reveals.

Montana’s GOP-led COVID response brought waves of patients to a Helena hospital, forcing health care workers to make difficult care decisions for COVID and non-COVID patients alike.

Country failed to collect and share data, masking issues and inequalities, according to editorial in British Medical Journal

Professor Massimo Hilliard and Dr Ramon Martinez-Marmol have discovered viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 can cause brain cells to fuse, initiating malfunctions that lead to chronic neurological symptoms.

It’s cheap, widely available and might help us fend off the virus. So should we all be dosing up on the sunshine nutrient?

Through his hallowed foundation, the world’s de facto public health czar has been a stalwart defender of monopoly medicine.

The technology could help to boost immunity against cancer, influenza and much more.

For the most part, getting a Covid-19 vaccination shouldn’t change any of your typical health, fitness, or wellness routines, or at least not for more than a day or two. Still, it’s reasonable to…

Kelly Brogan, Sayer Ji, and the growing influence of the 'conspirituality' movement, a dangerous combination of covid-denialism and vax-resistance that threatens the public health

The global pandemic has deepened an epidemic of loneliness in America. This report from Making Caring Common, a project of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, explores who is lonely, the many causes of loneliness, and ways to alleviate it.

After a weak early response to COVID, Israel leads the world in vaccinations. The benefits are apparent, Eran Segal says. But hurdles remain, including finishing vaccinations and staving off variants.

Researchers surveyed more than 1,500 adults in Brazil about their personalities and how well they adhered to Covid-19 prevention measures. Their findings point to a few psychological reasons why some people don't wear face masks, maintain social distance and practice hand hygiene.

The malign forces of capital are working tirelessly to ensure that the system they created and benefit from will endure.

People had questions about COVID-19, so scientist Laurel Bristow took to Instagram to answer them.

Like so many aspects of this pandemic, the vaccine shortage is a clear example of how the private sector has failed to protect us during a crisis. Rather than setting its own priorities and running its own program, the Canadian government continues to chase companies such as Pfizer—which no democratic government controls. We see the results now, as health authorities cancel vaccine appointments and new cases surge across the country.

One simulation of an uncontrolled disease outbreak concluded with riots and the National Guard on the streets.

Pandemic dreams are remarkably common across multiple countries, according to a suite of new studies.

The president went from mild symptoms to hospitalization within 24 hours.

CBC News has dug deep into the data on over 120,000 COVID-19 cases collected by the Public Health Agency of Canada to examine how the illness affects the young, the elderly, men and women in order to better understand what's most likely to land you in hospital — or worse.

Scientists face potential struggle to convince people of vaccine safety as celebrities join misinformation chorus

Only by taking the vaccine industry into full public ownership, with small "d" democratic controls in place, can we provide an internationalized response to this and future pandemics that properly recognizes vaccines as a global public good.

As the U.S. coronavirus death toll passes 155,000, there is still no national testing program, with widespread shortages and delays hampering efforts to contain the pandemic. This continues months after President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner launched a White House task force with the goal of establishing a national testing plan. We speak to investigative reporter Katherine Eban, whose explosive Vanity Fair report chronicles Kushner’s fumbling efforts and the sudden decision to abandon the project on political grounds. “The participants expected that at any moment in early April, the plan would be announced,” says Eban. “It vanished into thin air.”

Breitbart released a video spreading misinformation on social media. The video was removed from all sites because it includes potentially dangerous information.