These US doctors and nurses share Covid-19 falsehoods. They can become misinformation superspreaders


Assistant junior high school principal Jacqueline Edmonds (left) leads an orientation tour of the building at Woodbury High School on Aug 31, 2021. When New Jersey students return to school next week, they face a mandatory mask mandate. — The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS

The number of Covid-19 cases in the county was rising sharply, Scott Levy, chief medical officer in one of Bucks County’s hospitals, tried to tell the crowd at the Aug 31 meeting of the Central Bucks School Board amid a debate over school mask mandates.

“We’ve gone from 10 cases a week diagnosed at Doylestown Hospital first week of July,” he began.

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