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By BY KATHERINE J. WU from NYT Health https://ift.tt/3kLFxgq
Every 1 point increase in the effort to discredit vaccines is linked to an average 2% drop in annual vaccine coverage around the world, and a 15% increase in negative tweets about vaccination, researchers found.
Because a high percentage of them have no symptoms when they are infected, they could become sources of future spread, the researchers said.
The Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center reported that 88,521 new coronavirus cases were recorded Thursday in the United States -- the most in a single day since the start of the pandemic.