COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation Poses "Urgent Threat" to Nation's Health, Surgeon General Warns

Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy warns that misinformation about the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines is causing lives and poses an "urgent threat" to the nation's health. Dr. Murthy's comments come just hours after he took the rare step of issuing an advisory on the threat. "Today we live in a world where misinformation poses an imminent and insidious threat to our nation's health...Simply put, health misinformation has cost us lives," he says. close