Anti-vaccine activists giddily celebrate as poliovirus spreads in NY$1:
On Friday, the anti-vaccine organization Children's Health Defense published an article calling the dip in vaccination a "COVID Silver Lining." The site, run by prominent anti-vaccine activist and prolific peddler of dangerous misinformation Robert F. Kennedy, had falsely claimed previously that a vaccination dip in 2020 led to a dramatic reduction in deaths from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. CDC data, however, indicates that the rate of SIDS actually increased slightly in 2020 compared with 2019, but has stayed relatively stable for several years.
In the article Friday, written by the site's "staff," the organization suggested New York health officials are fabricating the spread of polio, using scare quotes around "polio" and "vaccine-preventable." Specifically, it accused health officials of "stoking worries about a resurgence of so-called 'vaccine-preventable' illnesses. Thus, following a single case of paralysis ascribed to 'polio,' New York State is busily trying to conjure up a polio outbreak."
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