AntiVaccine – COOPER GENERAL NEWS

Dr. Peter Hotez told CNBC he was glad the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated their guidelines and urged pregnant women to get vaccinated, especially given the widespread misinformation campaigns targeting pregnant women.

“Unfortunately, the bad guys, the anti-vaccine groups, have published a lot of fake information claiming that Covid-19 vaccines can cause infertility,” said Hotez, co-director of the vaccine development center at Texas Children’s Hospital.

“They copied and pasted their fake news about the HPV vaccine for cervical cancer and other cancers, which was also wrong, that they said caused infertility, and they just copied / pasted it right on Covid-19 vaccines . There was never any truth to it. “

The CDC’s recommendation comes because the highly transmissible Delta variant is causing a further increase in Covid-19 infections and the daily cases nationwide are rising over 100,000. According to CDC statistics, by July 31, around 23% of pregnant women had received at least one dose of the Covid vaccine.

Hotez underlined in an interview on Wednesday evening in “The News with Shepard Smith” how dangerous it is for some pregnant women to become infected with Covid-19.

“We have seen many and many pregnant women over the past year and a half who got very sick, went to the pediatric intensive care unit, lost their baby, lost their own life to Covid-19, and this is the really scary piece” “, said Hotez. “Pregnant women have not coped well with this virus, and that is the big message.”

On Saturday, protesters gathered outside a hat shop in Nashville that sold “unvaccinated” Star of David patches and compared vaccination records with the Nazi practice of requesting “your papers.”

The store, Hatwrks, said on Instagram in a post that was later deleted that it was selling the patches for $ 5. In an outbreak of anti-Semitic attacks across the country, the post was criticized on social media and off-store, where protesters held signs saying “No Nazis in Nashville” and “Sell hats, don’t hate”.

In a separate post on the store’s Instagram account, which also touted “mask-free shopping” and promoted the conspiracy theory that vaccines contain microchips, it says, “All unvaccinated people are segregated from society, tagged and required a mask wear. What’s next?”

The hat company Stetson said that “because of the objectionable content and opinions of Hatwrks,” the store would stop selling its products.

A post on the business’s account responding to the criticism reads, “I respect history a lot more by campaigning against the fallen than offering silence and compliance.” A later post apologized “for any insensitivity “and said,” my hope was to share my sincere concern and fear and to do everything possible to ensure that nothing “like the Holocaust” ever happens again.

Gigi Gaskins, who is the shopkeeper according to state records, didn’t respond to requests for comment.

The criticism of vaccination passports or the digital proof of a Covid-19 vaccination goes beyond the USA: demonstrators gathered in London and Brussels on Saturday to protest the vaccination requirements.

Oregon said last week that companies would need to check customers’ vaccination status before they could enter without a mask, despite corporate groups there questioning the practicality of the requirement. New York created the Excelsior Pass, but doesn’t require it to be widely used.

In Tennessee, Republican Governor Bill Lee signed law on Wednesday banning local governments from requiring businesses to review vaccination records.