How a vaccine side-effect database has sowed doubt in vaccinations

Omission bias when using VAERS has been used to mislead and misrepresent statistics by anti-vaccine protagonists

06 December 2021 - 19:23 By Kristen V Brown

Midway into the pandemic, University of Alabama epidemiologist Bertha Hidalgo realised her Covid communication strategy needed a makeover...

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