‘Vaccines Don’t Reduce the Risk of COVID-19' and Other Pandemic Misinformation

Amanda Hanemaayer
6 min readDec 1, 2021
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When the World Health Organization (WHO) first listed vaccine hesitancy as one of the top ten threats to global health in 2019, I sorely underestimated the ensuing consequences of such a trend. Over the course of that year, however, measles cases began to spike across North America, ultimately reaching levels of infection unheard of since 1992, as outbreaks…

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Amanda Hanemaayer

Striving to live a life defined by empathy | writing about climate change, public health and social justice