Califf and Marks call for clinicians to help address ‘large volume’ of vaccine misinformation

FDA Com­mis­sion­er Rob Califf and bi­o­log­ics di­rec­tor Pe­ter Marks took to JA­MA on Fri­day to counter the cur­rent “large vol­ume” of vac­cine mis­in­for­ma­tion by urg­ing the clin­i­cal and bio­med­ical com­mu­ni­ty “to re­dou­ble its ef­forts to pro­vide ac­cu­rate plain-lan­guage in­for­ma­tion” on the ben­e­fits and risks of vac­ci­na­tion.

The call to ac­tion comes as they note sev­er­al vac­cine-pre­ventable dis­eases like measles could re­turn in the US giv­en a drop-off in vac­ci­na­tion rates, par­tic­u­lar­ly for chil­dren.

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