It’s Still Worth Fighting Anti-Covid Vaccine Misinformation

(Bloomberg) Medical misinformation has never contributed to as many deaths as in the last 18 months. Recently released statistics show thousands of “excess” deaths concentrated among the US states and counties with the lowest uptake of Covid-19 vaccines — though the vaccines were free and available to everyone.  Uptake has been suppressed in those areas because a significant chunk of the public has remained intensely skeptical of the Covid vaccines — especially those using mRNA technology, which has been in development for decades but never used until now. Among the rumors: that the vaccines change your DNA; cause infertility; or even kill you. None of these are based in fact.