Monday, May 16, 2022

“Coronaphobia”: How antivaxxers and pandemic minimizers pathologize fear of disease

Over the weekend, Dr. Lucy McBride, a concierge medicine doctor who has become famous as a pandemic minimizer and one of the drivers of "Urgency of Normal", Tweeted an article that she had written over a year ago about "coronaphobia". Whether she understands it or not, this is a very old antivax trope: To pathologize fear of infectious disease as mental illness.

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from Science-Based Medicine https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/coronaphobia-how-antivaxxers-and-pandemic-minimizers-pathologize-fear-of-disease/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=coronaphobia-how-antivaxxers-and-pandemic-minimizers-pathologize-fear-of-disease

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