NEW DELHI: Close to 50,000 additional deaths globally are estimated between 2020 and 2030 due to pandemic-related disruptions to immunisation, new research published in The Lancet Global Health journal has found. The study assessed the impact of Covid-19 on the coverage of measles, rubella, humanpapillomavirus (HPV), Hepatitis B, Meningitis A, and yellow fever vaccinations. Of … Read more
The Healey and Wu administrations finally were forced to acknowledge highly infectious chickenpox cases at a migrant shelter in Roxbury this week but deliberately downplayed the outbreak for political reasons and released only limited information. “There is no outbreak concern,” a Boston Public Schools official said – only after the Herald and other media asked … Read more
In 2021, Ron DeSantis appointed Joseph Ladapo the surgeon general of Florida, after Ladapoâs op-eds questioning mask-wearing, COVID-19 vaccines, and other public health measures caught the governorâs eye. In the ensuing years, Ladapo has recommended children should not receive the COVID vaccine, has âweaponize[d] bad science to spread anti-vaccine disinformation as official policy,â and has personally … Read more
