Anti-Vaccination Movement

A German anti-vax couple said to have kidnapped their daughters to avoid COVID-19 jabs is being hunted by Interpol in Paraguay.

"We were slow and methodical, yet you were assaultive and aggressive with officers and the horses," police said Saturday.

"This is legislation ensuring doctors have the freedom to...treat their [patients] best," one Republican state representative said about the bill.

This is not the first time Kennedy has referenced the Holocaust when speaking about public health mandates in regard to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The vaccinated majority is rapidly losing interest in the fate of the unvaccinated—and that's putting it diplomatically.

The representative told WTAX Radio that he received threats to himself, his family and his synagogue.

Lawson said four men in a car followed her from her home to a parking garage near her law office, and confronted her in the dark garage at the end of the day.

Biden said that two things still concern him: "gross misinformation" from anti-vaccination activists and those who try to make vaccines a "political freedom issue."

"The word 'Covidiot' doesn't even begin to describe how inappropriate the actions of these wack jobs are," Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth said.

The toxic aspect of today's polarization is that the two sides question each other's fundamental decency, not just their governing agendas.

The decorations have divided the internet, with one person arguing: "Halloween is for fun not for politics."

"Wow, look at all these zombies that have been indoctrinated into communism," the protester said while yelling at students during their lunch hour.

Last week, she protested her state's VaxBus program, a mobile vaccination unit to help inoculate rural residents against COVID-19.

California State Assembly member Jim Cooper said the same women harassed him outside the State Capitol building using racial undertones.

Brandy Vaughan, 45, was found dead on December 7 by her 9-year-old son in the family's California home.

Earlier this week, California brought in strict new rules in an effort to tackle the outbreak, including curfews and quarantines.

More than four in 10 Americans say they won't get the COVID vaccine when it becomes available. Big problem: Even a highly effective vaccine won't do much to rein in the pandemic if enough people can't be persuaded to get the shot.

The Moderna vaccine seems like it could save lives, but epidemiologists worry that anti-vaccination advocates may discourage people from receiving it.

The doctor who has issued the most vaccine exemptions in the San Diego area has been charged with gross negligence for granting an exemption to a four-year-old based on "irrelevant family medical history" and inadequate documentation.

The anti-vaccine lobby has only grown more powerful as measles spreads across the U.S. Unless congressional action is taken, other vaccine-preventable diseases are likely to rise.

The number of measles cases in the Philippines jumped 500 percent in just one year. Authorities urged parents to vaccinate their children.

The percentage of American children under two years of age who have received no vaccinations has quadrupled since 2001.

Anti-vaccine activities appear to be more of a western phenomenon, especially in the Pacific Northwest and American Southwest.

"New foci of antivaccine activities are being established in major metropolitan areas, rendering select cities vulnerable," researchers reported.

Researchers analyzed posts on popular anti-vaccine Facebook pages.

Nonmedical vaccine exemptions were on the rise up through 2013. Now they appear to have leveled off.

"It's a little different," Liff said. "My patients eat dirt. They eat poop."

Vaccine skeptics gathered in Washington, D.C., today with accusations of a government-led cover-up of data linking childhood immunizations to autism. The protest culminated in a talk by outspoken anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

The American Medical Association says religious and "personal belief" exemptions from childhood vaccines are dangerous.

Nearly 80 percent say they believe all children should be vaccinated.