Posted on 05/23/2019 6:25:10 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The head of an international vaccine group says that misunderstandings and false information about vaccines are spreading on the internet and should be stopped.
Seth Berkley of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, spoke Tuesday to a gathering in Geneva, Switzerland, where the World Health Organization is meeting. Berkley said that false information “kills people.” He noted strong scientific evidence of the safety of vaccines.
But, he said social media algorithms favor misinformation over facts. He added that such misinformation easily influences people who have not had a family member die from a preventable disease.
Berkley said people must consider the belief in misinformation as a contagious sickness.
He added, “This is a disease.This spreads at the speed of light, literally.”
The World Health Organization says not enough people are getting the vaccine that prevents measles. It says this is why the disease is spreading around the world.
The organization says vaccines save two million lives every year.
Measles infections have risen sharply in countries that earlier had few cases, including the United States.
Seth Berkley argues that misinformation about vaccines is not a freedom of speech issue. He said Tuesday that social media companies should remove such content from their websites.
Alex Azar is Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He made similar comments in his speech to the yearly meeting of the WHO. He said in the U.S., social media conspiracy groups confuse parents so they avoid getting needed vaccinations.
The American official also spoke of U.S. efforts to strengthen immunization programs around the world. He said, “Just recently, the U.S. supported a mass measles vaccination campaign in Nigeria that reached almost 10 million kids. We assisted with a diphtheria outbreak among Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.”
And he noted U.S. support of recent research about the yellow fever vaccine.
Azar has rejected criticism of comments about vaccines made by U.S. president Donald Trump before he became president. Trump posted on Twitter that vaccination could cause autism, a developmental disorder.
“A study says @Autism is out of control – a 78% increase in 10 years. Stop giving monstrous combined vaccinations.”
Azar said that Trump was “extremely firm” in support of vaccinations.
Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer Theresa Tam also spoke to the WHO delegates. She said health officials needed to do more about online misinformation. She said she was working on the issue with Twitter, Facebook, Google and other companies.
We’re doing a helluva job suppressing dissenting speech on every other issue, so why on earth would we think that the HHS, FDA, big pharma and their tools on the international front wouldn’t jump on the censorship bandwagon.
Look up the Tuskegee Syphillis Experiment if you have any doubt - and that began over 80 years ago.
I wonder where his paycheck comes from?
THOUGHT CRIMES!
Get'em State!
Plain and simple the vaccine industry is pure evil , using to get intentions of the medical establishment try to force you to inject poison into your body.
End of sentence
Here is some simple facts right now
there are some 73 vaccines they want you to force you to take
They are trying to use the force of government to force you to inject poison into your bloodstream
The plain and simple fact is vaccines either don’t work or terribly and effective compared to many other means of fighting pathogen’s
Do your own research listen to what I say and then take all of the scare tactics with a big old grain of salt
Remember that there is a $5 billion fiund to pay off all the parents whose children’s lives have been ruined forever via side effects from these poisons that they’re injecting into their little bloodstreams
I am not new on this bandwagon and I have multiple engineering in degree have study bio chemically and pharmacology now for 30 years
The answer to combat illness which are all bacteria and viruses is colloidal silver
They could help by being up front about potential side-effects and risks and not just “pooh-pooh” folks concerns...
MMR almost killed my son
It took years of therapy and a miracle but we got him back
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