By disparaging public-health methods and discrediting vaccines, the COVID‑19 minimizers cost hundreds of thousands of people ...

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Cases of the seasonal flu in the U.S. have reached their highest numbers in more than a decade, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.