Parents targeted with misleading warnings on Covid-19 vaccination

A file photo showing protesters against vaccine and mask mandates demonstrating near the state capitol, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Last spring, as false claims about vaccine safety threatened to undermine the world's response to COVID-19, researchers at Facebook wrote that they could reduce vaccine misinformation by tweaking how vaccine posts show up on users' newsfeeds, or by turning off comments entirely. Yet despite internal documents showing these changes worked, Facebook was slow to take action. — AP

WASHINGTON: Registered nurse Melody Butler seeks to provide science-based answers to American parents as she urges them to vaccinate their children against Covid-19.

But her efforts to do so on social media through Nurses Who Vaccinate – a volunteer group she founded – is up against a deluge of claims that the shots are dangerous.