anti-vaxxers

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Ohio government panders to hard-right at expense of fair-minded majority

BY: - October 21, 2021

State government has taken a hard right turn down a dangerous road in Ohio. It’s not where most Ohioans want to go, but that doesn’t matter. The legislature doesn’t answer to us. An extreme minority is calling the shots with GOP lawmakers. Same thing is happening in other states where Republicans, with an absolute lock […]

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Dr. Jonas Salk, pictured here, developed the polio vaccine, which has saved millions of lives. A simple story about a polio victim changed the writer’s mind. Photo courtesy of the Senator John Heinz History Center.

I was an evangelical and an anti-vaxxer; here’s what changed — Essay

BY: - August 5, 2021

By Julie M. Bach As hospitals again fill up with COVID-19 cases, the vaccinated are getting angrier at the unvaccinated. I get the anger. I also get what it feels like to be on the other side. Being an anti-vaxxer is a lot like being an evangelical Christian, and I’ve been both. In the evangelical […]

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Life, unvaccinated: One Ohioan shares her story

BY: - August 28, 2020

As Ohio enters into its fifth month of the new coronavirus pandemic with no end in sight, all eyes have turned to the hope of a vaccine in the near future. A number of notable pharmaceutical companies have now begun stage three trials, making the possibility of a vaccine sometime in the next six months […]