
Anti-Vaxxers Are Here to Stay
So what can officials do to protect the public’s health?
Beth S. Linas is an infectious disease and digital health epidemiologist with the MITRE Corporation in Washington, D.C. She has worked in both the non-profit and private sectors using data-driven and evidence-based technology solutions for preventing, monitoring, and improving public health. She completed her PhD and post-doctoral training in epidemiology at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is committed to making science and public health easier for everyone to understand. You can follow her on Twitter @bethlinas. (The author's affiliation with The MITRE Corporation is provided for identification purposes only and is not intended to convey or imply MITRE's concurrence with, or support for, the positions, opinions or viewpoints she expresses here.)
So what can officials do to protect the public’s health?
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