
Jessica McDonald
Science Editor at FactCheck.org
Science editor for @factcheckdotorg's SciCheck. Previously @WHYYNews, @SciFri & AAAS Mass Media Fellow at @KUNC. @YaleIBIO immunology PhD.
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3 days ago |
factcheck.org | Catalina Jaramillo |Jessica McDonald |Jessica Mcdonald
Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. In the past two weeks, U.S. public health authorities have skirted normal procedures and announced two major policy changes that will likely reduce access to COVID-19 vaccines and restrict use to higher-risk populations.
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2 weeks ago |
factcheck.org | Jessica McDonald
Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. Since regaining power, the Trump administration has repeatedly claimed with false certainty that the COVID-19 pandemic originated in a lab.
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3 weeks ago |
factcheck.org | Jessica McDonald |Jessica Mcdonald
Este artículo estará disponible en español en El Tiempo Latino. Speaking before Congress, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert. F. Kennedy Jr. misleadingly claimed that Europe doesn’t vaccinate children against chickenpox because a study shows that when you do, “you get shingles in older people.” While that is a theoretical concern, studies have not borne that out — and parts of Europe do vaccinate kids.
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1 month ago |
nbclosangeles.com | Kate Yandell |Jessica McDonald |Jessica Mcdonald
In announcing new autism prevalence data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.
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1 month ago |
inkl.com | Jessica McDonald |Jessica Mcdonald
Two days later, in Phoenix, Ariz., Kennedy repeated the claim. “Our strategy has been very successful,” he said of dealing with the measles outbreak. “The number continues to grow by the day, but the growth rate … has diminished substantially.”In an interview CBS News released on April 9, he said, “the rate of the increase has substantially decreased, so we are successfully controlling it.” And in an April 10 Cabinet meeting, Kennedy again said that measles cases “have now plateaued.”Andrew T.
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