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NHS Wales data wrangler 🏥 | Free software advocate 💻 | Politics, photography, music & cooking 🌹📸🎵🍳

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April 12, 2018

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People will (rightfully) call out social media and its lack of moderation as being a key driver of vaccine misinformation, but I can't help but feel that the true issue is the fact that many people in our society would rather trust random people online than trained medical professionals, public health experts, and decades of robust scientific evidence.

Measles outbreak kills child in Liverpool as vaccination rate plunges - Measles outbreak kills child in Liverpool as vaccination rate plunges

The Sunday Times

Measles outbreak kills child in Liverpool as vaccination rate plunges

The death in Liverpool, where one in four young children are not protected, is fuelling warnings that the virus could spread like ‘wildfire’

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