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COVID vaccinations: Targeted texts help encourage recipients to get their shot--study

Fri, 2024-11-22 00:17 — mike kraft
Targeted texts boost COVID vaccine uptake, 2 trials show The authors establish that text messages sent with an ownership frame, "your [vaccine] is ready for you," were associated with higher vaccine uptake. CIDRAP

Two randomized control trials conducted in the Netherlands show text messages can increase COVID-19 vaccine uptake, especially if they are formulated with a message using ownership words, such as "your vaccine is ready."

 

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Supreme Court rejects RFK Jr. group’s attempt to protect anti-Covid-vaccine doctors from misinformation investigations

Thu, 2024-11-21 23:49 — mike kraft
RFK Jr. Group Denied by Justice Kagan in Covid Vaccine Dispute US Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan refused to stop Washington state officials from disciplining doctors who spread misinformation about Covid-19. BLaw
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Disinformation issue: Canadian PM testifies that Russia helped fund anti-Vax promoters

Mon, 2024-10-21 22:12 — mike kraft
Justin Trudeau Testifies That Russia Funded Tucker Carlson and Jordan Peterson in Support of Their Anti-Vax Covid Claims | Video The Canadian prime minister made the allegations under oath at the nation’s Foreign Interference Commission The post Justin Trudeau Testifies That Russia Funded Tucker Carlson and Jordan Peterson in Support of Their Anti-Vax Covid Claims | Video appeared first on TheWrap. Yahoo News

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Analysis: Journalists' articles often didn't communicate uncertainty of evidence on unproven COVID drugs

Wed, 2024-09-04 07:52 — mike kraft
Analysis: Journalists often didn't communicate uncertainty of evidence on unproven COVID drugs Scientific evidence of the efficacy of the unproven COVID-19 therapies hydroxychloroquine, remdesivir, and convalescent plasma was often presented in US news stories in the first months of the pandemic, but scientific uncertainty was commonly omitted and only rarely appeared in headlines or ledes, with possible implications for public health, researchers reported yesterday in JMIR Infodemiology. CIDRAP

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Hospitals, airlines and others hit by global computer system outages.

Fri, 2024-07-19 23:00 — mike kraft
CrowdStrike outage sparks global chaos with airline, bank and other disruptions IT outages have been reported across the globe as airlines, airports, banks and media companies have suddenly experienced ongoing disruptions. ABC News ABC News
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Misinformation issue: Johns Hopkins launches new website to help counter medical disinformaton

Fri, 2024-07-19 22:52 — mike kraft

 

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Melting of ice cap is slowing earth's rotation, could disrupt communications

Wed, 2024-07-17 00:19 — mike kraft
Climate crisis is making days longer, study finds Melting of ice is slowing planet’s rotation and could disrupt internet traffic, financial transactions and GPS The Guardian

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Cyberattacks on Hospitals Compromise Care, Not Just Data

Tue, 2024-07-09 22:55 — mike kraft
When Hospital Cyberattacks Compromise Care, Not Just Data - KFF Health News When hospitals are hit by cyberattacks that compromise crucial technology systems for managing patient care, the stakes are staggering. “We’ve started to think about these as public health issues and disasters on the scale of earthquakes or hurricanes,” said Jeff Tully, a co-director of the Center for Healthcare Cybersecurity at the University of California at […] khnerich KFF Health News

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Reminder messages, not free rides, are more effective in encouraging COVID-19 booster vaccinations --study

Fri, 2024-06-28 21:42 — mike kraft
Reminders—but not free rides—boost COVID-19 booster uptake Text messages increased 30-day COVID-19 booster uptake by 21%. CIDRAP

Nature has published a large study showing that text message reminders to receive a COVID-19 booster worked to increase vaccine uptake, but that offering free rides to pharmacies did not. 

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U.S. Surgeon General urges Congress to approve warning labels on social media apps

Tue, 2024-06-18 06:03 — mike kraft
Surgeon General demands warning label on social media apps | CNN Business Surgeon General Vivek Murthy in an op-ed in the New York Times Monday said the threat social media poses to children is an emergency, and he urged Congress to put a label on the apps as with cigarettes and alcohol. David Goldman CNN

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