Anthony FauciAnthony FauciHillicon Valley: Biden: Social media platforms ‘killing people’ | Tech executives increased political donations amid lobbying push | Top House antitrust Republican forms ‘Freedom from Big Tech Caucus’ Harris in Instagram post with Olivia Rodrigo: Vaccines are ‘Good 4 U’ Jen Psaki to throw out first pitch at Nationals game MORE said on Saturday that he thinks smallpox and polio would still be spreading in the U.S. if today’s “false information” was present then.
“If you look at the extraordinary historic success in eradicating smallpox and eliminating polio from most of the world, and we’re on the brink of eradicating polio, if we had the pushback for vaccines, the way we’re seeing on certain media, I don’t think it would have been possible at all to not only eradicate smallpox, we probably would still have smallpox and we probably would still have polio in this country,” Fauci, President BidenJoe BidenBiden calls on Congress to pass voting rights bills on anniversary of John Lewis’s death Afghan, Taliban officials meet in Qatar amid US troop withdrawal Biden administration investigating cases of ‘Havana syndrome’ in Austria MORE’s chief medical adviser, said in response to a question from “CNN Newsroom” host Jim AcostaJames (Jim) AcostaTrump brings show to border Jim Acosta booed at border after asking Trump to apologize for Jan. 6 US just finished dead last among 46 countries in media trust — here’s why MORE.
“If we had the kind of false information that’s being spread now, if we had that back decades ago, I would be certain that we’d still have polio in this country,” he added.
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Surgeon General Vivek MurthyVivek MurthySunday shows preview: Feds slam social media over COVID-19 misinformation Facebook pushes back against White House criticism, says it’s ‘looking for scapegoats’ Overnight Health Care: CDC director warns of ‘pandemic of the unvaccinated’ | Biden says social media platforms ‘killing people’ | Florida accounts for 20 percent of new cases MORE issued an advisory on Thursday calling health misinformation an “urgent threat,” saying in a statement that “it can cause confusion, sow distrust, and undermine public health efforts, including our ongoing work to end the COVID-19 pandemic.”
The advisory urges technology and social media companies to do more to fight misinformation on their platforms, including redesigning algorithms to refrain from amplifying misinformation and strengthening monitoring.
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Murthy’s comments come as concerns over COVID-19 have risen in recent weeks, especially with the more contagious delta variant spreading rapidly throughout the U.S.
Vaccination rates are also down in the country, as many in the vaccine-hesitant population are still refusing to get inoculated.
The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Rochelle WalenskyRochelle WalenskyFormer surgeon general says CDC guidance on masks ‘premature’ and ‘wrong’ LA County sheriff says reinstated mask mandate ‘not backed by science’ Oklahoma’s Choctaw Nation reimposes mask mandate for visitors at tribal health facilities MORE, said on Friday that COVID-19 is “becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated,” as the majority of recent hospitalizations and deaths are people who have not been inoculated.
Biden on Friday said social media platforms are “killing people” when answering a question about his message to corporate giants regarding COVID-19 misinformation.