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Vaccine mandates: The role of slavery, racism in the history of public health policy

This article is republished from The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. On Sept. 3, 2025, Florida announced its plans to be the ...
The Conversation

Vaccine mandates misinformation: 2 experts explain the true role of slavery and racism in the history of public health policy – and the growing threat ignorance poses today

The authors do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and have disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...
Medical Xpress

Vaccine mandates misinformation: Two experts explain the true role of slavery and racism

On Sept. 3, 2025, Florida announced its plans to be the first state to eliminate vaccine mandates for its citizens, including those for children to attend school. As experts on the history of American ...
Opinion

RFK Jr. is scrutinizing the vaccine schedule – but its safety record is already decades long

The U.S. childhood immunization schedule, the grid of colored bars pediatricians share with parents, recommends a set of vaccines given from birth through adolescence to prevent a range of serious ...
Detroit Free Press

In 'uncharted waters' with COVID-19 vaccines, Michigan health leaders set own course

As federal COVID-19 vaccine policies dramatically change, public health leaders in states like Michigan are trying to chart their own path forward. Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian, Michigan's chief medical ...
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'Vaccine rejection is as old as vaccines themselves': Science historian Thomas Levenson on the history of germ theory and its deniers

Germ theory is the idea that pathogens can invade the human body and cause disease — and it wasn't always accepted. Evidence for germ theory accumulated over time, and as it did, it butted against ...