United States agreed that more must be done.
The new statement “is timely and well-reasoned,” said Dr. Eric Cioe-Pena, who directs global health at Northwell Health, in New Hyde Park, N.Y. “It is my hope that the larger global community will take action along with the medical and public health leaders in this statement,” he said.
Dr. Edward Chapnick is head of infectious diseases at Maimonides Medical Center in New York City. He called the new statement “immensely important in 2019, as the U.S. faces its worst measles outbreak in this century.”
According to Chapnick, “it may be impossible to completely wipe out misinformation on the internet, [but] we can certainly take steps to ensure that medically sound information from established and respected sources is the default setting in every search engine.”
For their part, the IWG intends “to keep up a steady drumbeat of