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    2020 - S05E11 - Your Body, My Choice!

    The US may be heading to a “dangerous vaccination tipping point,” with immunization rates falling so low that population-level immunity is now at risk, and we will likely see thousands of needless deaths this respiratory virus season, two top officials for the Food and Drug Administration warned in a recent JAMA commentary. FDA Commissioner Robert Califf and top FDA vaccine regulator Peter Marks noted the profound benefits of vaccines—which save millions of lives in the US each year—and their established safety, which is monitored both passively and actively through multiple overlapping federal safety monitoring systems. And yet, “an increasing number of people in the US are now declining vaccination for a variety of reasons, ranging from safety concerns to religious beliefs,” thanks to the rise of anti-vaccine misinformation spread on social media and elsewhere on the Internet. - TV-MA, 58 mins

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