🔬 Science 2d ago · Ben Sullivan

The News You Watch Is Shaping Whether You Vaccinate Your Kids

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By the summer of 2025, measles had returned to the United States in a way not seen since the disease was declared eradicated twenty-five years earlier. More than 2,000 cases spread across 43 states. Children were hospitalised. Public health officials scrambled. And a team of researchers at Johns Hopkins began asking a question that seemed, on its face, almost too obvious to bother studying: did the news people were watching have anything to do with it?
The answer, it turns out, is yes. Emphatica

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