Vaccine Misinformation, Parenting, and the COVID-19 Death Toll : Short Wave – NPR

A COVID Memorial Project installation in September, 2020 marked 200,000 lives lost in the COVID-19 pandemic. The official death toll in the U.S. is on the cusp of a million. Win McNamee/Getty Images hide caption

A COVID Memorial Project installation in September, 2020 marked 200,000 lives lost in the COVID-19 pandemic. The official death toll in the U.S. is on the cusp of a million.

Any hour now, the U.S. is expected to officially mark one million lives lost to the COVID-19 pandemic. Health correspondent Allison Aubrey shares how this misinformation first entered the parenting world--and how some are fighting back.

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This story was edited for radio by Jane Greenhalgh and for Short Wave by Gisele Grayson, our senior supervising editor. Margaret Cirino checked the facts and produced the episode.

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