Ra7onale: Many people are informed about vaccines through social media. The learning outcome
of this assignment is to systema:cally assess the validity and impact of social media posts about
vaccines. Please follow the instruc:ons indicated below and submit your completed worksheet
as a Word document or pdf using the submission link provided for Individual Assignment #5 SPR

2023. Submit by 11:59 PM on Tuesday, April 4th, 2023.
      Instruc7ons:
      a. Using the Ac7vity 1 Worksheet select one vaccine-related social media post from a person
      on list A and one from a person on list B. Indicate your selec:ons in the spaces provided in the
      worksheet.
      LIST A LIST B
      Dr. Sanjay Gupta Dr. Joseph Mercola
      Dr. Tom Frieden Erin Elizabeth
      Dr. Leana Wen Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
      Andy Slavitt Del Bigtree
      Helen Branswell Dr. Sherri Tenpenny
      Caitlin Rivers, PhD Christiane Northrup
      Atul Gawande Ty and Charlene Bollinger
      Dr. Peter Hotez Rizza Islam
      Laurie Garrett Dr. Ben Tapper
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      b. Complete the worksheet by taking a screenshot of the post OR write down what the post
      says as well as the author, day and 7me it was published, and what plaNorm you found it on.
      For example, from list B, I used Google to search: “Dr. Joseph Mercola vaccine twiQer” to find a
      TwiQer post on vaccines by Dr. Joseph Mercola. I found the following:
      Published by Dr. Joseph Mercola, 12:26 PM · Feb 21, 2023, on TwiQer
      “October 20, 2022, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Preven:on’s Advisory CommiQee on
      Immuniza:on Prac:ces (ACIP) unanimously (15-0) voted to add unlicensed COVID-19 shots to the
      U.S. childhood, adolescent and adult vaccine schedules. February 9, 2023, the CDC accepted the
      panel’s recommenda:on and officially added a primary series of mRNA COVID “vaccine” to its
      rou:ne immuniza:on schedules for children and adults, plus a bivalent booster (see image
      below).
      While the addi:on of the COVID shots to the recommended vaccina:on schedule does not make
      the jabs mandatory for school aQendance, their inclusion allows states and local jurisdic:ons to
      make them so. Vaccines on the childhood vaccina:on schedule are typically covered under the
      Na:onal Vaccine Injury Compensa:on Program (NVICP), but the COVID shot isn’t. Instead, the jab
      will remain covered by the Countermeasures Injury Compensa:on Program (CICP), which is even
      more restric:ve and limited in terms of compensa:on than the NVICP.
      According to CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the COVID jab was added to the childhood
      vaccina:on schedule because it was “the only way” to ensure under-insured children would have
      access to it. The real reason, however, is because it’s the only way for drug makers to be
      indemnified against financial liability for injuries and deaths.
      Go to Mercola DOT com to learn more.”