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BOSTON (CBS) – Tufts Medical Center issues its first doses of the single shot Johnson & Johnson COVID vaccine during a clinic Thursday morning. Johnson & Johnson, which received emergency authorization over the weekend, began shipping four million doses around the country this week. The company plans to have 20 million more made by the end of March and 100 million by the end of June. READ MORE: Limited Amount Of New First Dose COVID Vaccine Appointments Go Fast Gov. Charlie Baker said the state was only expecting a modest shipment this week, then a pause until the end of the month while Johnson & Johnson ramps up production. Mary Chin, Chief Executive Officer of the Asian American Civic Association, just received the first Johnson & Johnson vaccine at Tufts Medical Center's vaccine clinic. @wbz pic.twitter.com/nTczB9k3LW — Anna Meiler (@AnnaMeiler) March 4, 2021 READ MORE: Education Commissioner To Request Authority To Start Winding Down … [Read more...] about First Single-Shot Johnson & Johnson COVID Vaccines Administered At Tufts Medical Center

One of the websites The Washington Post labeled “fake news” in a November story demanded a retraction and threatened the paper with a defamation lawsuit in a demand letter Sunday. A lawyer for Naked Capitalism accuses WaPo of running a debunked list of “fake news” sites in the “sensational” story compiled by a dubious team of researchers, without substantiating their claims or giving Naked Capitalism a chance to respond to the allegation. The Washington Post’s actions constitute defamation, the lawyer writes in the letter published Monday . “You did not provide even a single example of ‘fake news’ allegedly distributed or promoted by Naked Capitalism or indeed any of the 200 sites on the PropOrNot blacklist,” James A. Moody writes. “You provided no discussion or assessment of the credentials or backgrounds of these so-called ‘researchers’ (Clint Watts, Andrew Weisburd, and J.M. Berger and the ‘team’ at PropOrNot), and no discussion or analysis of the methodology, protocol or … [Read more...] about Website Labeled ‘Fake News’ Threatens To Sue WaPo For Defamation

The Washington Post said a key part of its big story exposing “fake news” sites might not be credible Wednesday, writing in an editor’s note that the paper can’t “vouch for the validity” of a report heavily cited in the story. “The post, which did not name any of the sites, does not itself vouch for the validity of PropOrNot’s findings regarding any individual media outlet, nor did the article purport to do so,” the note now running at the top of the story reads. PropOrNot is an anonymous group that compiled a list of hundreds of sites they deemed “routine peddlers” of Russian propagandists, as part of a report on the Russian’s influence during the 2016 presidential election cycle. The Washington Post used PropOrNot’s report prominently in its own story on how Russian propagandists created and leveraged fake news during the cycle. One of the sites listed in PropOrNot’s report as “fake news” quickly demanded a retraction of the story and threatened to sue The Washington Post … [Read more...] about WaPo Admits A Key Part Of Its ‘Fake News’ Expose Might Be Fake

A recent study indicates that so-called “fake news” had very little, if any, effect on the 2016 election results. The study , undertook by Hunt Allcott of New York University and Matthew Gentzkow of Stanford University, concluded that only 14 percent of Americans surveyed say social media is their “most important” source of election news. The abstract of the study also reads, in part: “(iii) the average American saw and remembered 0.92 pro-Trump fake news stories and 0.23 pro-Clinton fake news stories, with just over half of those who recalled seeing fake news stories believing them; (iv) for fake news to have changed the outcome of the election, a single fake article would need to have had the same persuasive effect as 36 television campaign ads” Another sentence in the study reads, “Our confidence intervals rule out that the average voting-age American saw, remembered, and believed more than 0.71 pro-Trump fake stories and 0.18 pro-Clinton fake stories.” In … [Read more...] about Study: Fake News Had Virtually No Effect On Election

President Biden Joe Biden The West needs a more collaborative approach to Taiwan Abbott's medical advisers were not all consulted before he lifted Texas mask mandate House approves George Floyd Justice in Policing Act MORE dramatically changed expectations on the supply of vaccines and the trajectory of the country’s comeback from the coronavirus pandemic on Tuesday in announcing there will be enough coronavirus vaccines for all American adults by the end of May. On Wednesday, government officials described a process that seemed to surprise them for how swiftly it came together. The previous target for producing that much vaccine had been July. They said it wasn’t a decision that was taken lightly but said it was guided by facts and fast-moving events. ADVERTISEMENT “We are not in a habit of overpromising, and therefore even as of several weeks ago, before such time as the approval of Johnson & Johnson, the president was talking about moving up the … [Read more...] about Team Biden surprises with positive vaccine news