Activists Fueling Concerns About COVID Vaccine Safety

Del Bigtree, founder, Informed Consent Action Network; host, The HighWire talk show.

Richard Carpiano, PhD, professor of public policy and sociology, University of California, Riverside.

Kate Bitz, program manager and organizer/trainer who focuses on exposing and counteracting far-right groups, Western States Center, Portland OR.

Dorit Rubinstein Reiss, PhD, professor of law who has expertise on vaccines, University of California Hastings College of Law.

NPR: “Little Difference In Vaccine Hesitancy Among White And Black Americans, Poll Finds.”

The Center for Countering Digital Hate: “The AntiVaxx Playbook.”

The White House Fact Sheet: “President Biden to Announce All Americans to be Eligible for Vaccinations by May 1, Puts the Nation on a Path to Get Closer to Normal by July 4^th.”

CDC: “COVID-19 Vaccinations in the United States.”

Nature Research: “The online competition between pro- and anti-vaccination views.”

The New England Journal of Medicine: “Repurposed Antiviral Drugs for Covid-19 — Interim WHO

Solidarity Trial Results.”

International Journal of Infectious Diseases: “The significance of correct dosing of hydroxychloroquine in clinical trials of COVID-19.”

Los Angeles Times: “Anti-vaccine and alt-right groups team up to stoke fears of COVID-19 vaccine,” “DC riot was just the start of what a fractured insurrectionist movement is plotting,” “Far-right extremists want to target more capitols, but are divided after D.C. riot.”

The Washington Post: “‘I do regret being there’: Simone Gold, noted hydroxychloroquine advocate, was inside the Capitol during the riot,” “With Trump gone, QAnon groups focus fury on attacking coronavirus vaccines,” “Fauci says Trump should push supporters to get covid vaccine after ‘disturbing’ poll results show they won’t,” “Massive Facebook study on users’ doubt in vaccines finds a small group appears to play a big role in pushing the skepticism.”
 

The Intercept: “The Great Reset Conspiracy Smoothie.”

Newsweek: “Facebook Bans One of the Anti-Vaccine Movement’s Biggest Groups for Violating QAnon Rules.”

The Conversation: “Coronavirus, ‘Plandemic’ and the seven traits of conspiratorial thinking.”

CNN Investigation: “Leaders of the anti-vaccine movement used ‘Stop the Steal’ crusade to advance their own conspiracy theories.”

Nature Reviews of Immunology: “COVID-19 vaccine design: the Janus face of immune enhancement.”

Microbes and Infection: “Digging the rabbit hole, COVID-19 edition: anti-vaccine themes and the discourse around COVID-19.”

MedPage Today: “America’s Frontline Doctors’ Continue to Misinform on COVID — Notorious physician group has now pivoted to inciting fear about vaccines,” “Simone Gold Arrested for Role in Capitol Insurrection — Physician faces charges for entering restricted grounds, disorderly conduct.”

Congress.gov: House Hearing, 116th Congress, “Coronaviruses: Understanding the spread of infectious diseases and mobilizing innovative solutions.”

National Vaccine Information Center.

Facebook: ICAN.

Facebook: Del Bigtree.

Amazon.com: “Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe.”