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e. America's Frontline Doctors ( AFLDS) is an American right-wing political organization. [ 1][ 2][ 3] Affiliated with Tea Party Patriots co-founder Jenny Beth Martin and publicly led by Simone Gold, the group is opposed to measures intended to control the COVID-19 pandemic, such as business closures, stay-at-home orders, and vaccination.
[b] The COVID-19 pandemic also saw the emergence of misinformation and conspiracy theories, [35] and highlighted weaknesses in the U.S. public health system. [16] [36] [37] In the United States, there have been 103,436,829 [3] confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 1,193,165 [3] confirmed deaths, the most of any country, and the 17th highest per ...
U.S. president Donald Trump and members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force brief the media on March 16, 2020.. The White House Coronavirus Task Force was the United States Department of State task force during the Trump administration, the goal of the Task Force was to coordinate and oversee the administration's efforts to monitor, prevent, contain, and mitigate the spread of ...
The COVID-19 Advisory Board was announced in November 2020 by President-elect of the United States Joe Biden as part of his presidential transition. It was co-chaired by physicians David A. Kessler, Marcella Nunez-Smith, and Vivek Murthy and comprises 13 health experts. The board was then succeeded by the White House COVID-19 Response Team upon ...
In August 2021, a number of American conservative talk radio hosts who had discouraged COVID-19 vaccination, or expressed skepticism toward the COVID-19 vaccine, died from COVID-19 complications. [ 6][ 7] These included 65-year-old Marc Bernier, self-nicknamed "Mr. Antivax", from Daytona, Florida; [ 13] 65-year-old Dick Farrel, who referred to ...
The 2002–2004 outbreak of SARS, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV or SARS-CoV-1), infected over 8,000 people from 30 countries and territories, and resulted in at least 774 deaths worldwide. [ 1] The outbreak was first identified in Foshan, Guangdong, China, in November 2002. [ 2]
Simone Gold. Simone Melissa Gold[ 3] ( née Tizes) [ 4] is an American doctor and anti-vaccine activist. She is the founder of America's Frontline Doctors, a right-wing political organization known for spreading misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic. [ 5][ 6][ 7] Before her arrest and guilty plea for participating in the 2021 United States ...
Delta. COVID-19 variant Delta was less contagious than Omicron and is not currently circulating, explains Dr. Kasson. Though Delta caused about twice as many infections as its predecessors ...