Key Words: ‘Don’t count on Facebook to be the right source of information’: NIH head urges the unvaccinated not to listen to unreliable sources on vaccines

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The director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Francis S. Collins, said a flood of misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines on social media is contributing to vaccine hesitancy and urged people to get their shots and save themselves and their families from preventable death.

The 71-year-old, who is leaving his job at year-end, told MSNBC on Friday that he’s “surprised and kind of disheartened” that there are still close to 70 million people in the U.S. who have not gotten shots, despite more than 700,000 deaths from…

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