MANILA, Philippines — In less than a year, scientists were able to develop candidate vaccines against COVID-19, raising hopes that the end may be near for the pandemic, even as health experts still urge caution.
This extraordinary feat, however, is being undermined by a flood of falsehoods that even social media giant Facebook took note of, as it committed to “remove false claims” about the coronavirus vaccines on its platform.
Normally, it takes the scientific community years, even decades, to develop a vaccine against an infectious disease.
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Take the case of measles, which has plagued mankind for centuries. It was only in 1963 that the first measles vaccine was l…
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