4 major nonprofits that rose to prominence during the #coronavirus pandemic by capitalizing on the spread of #medical#misinformation collectively gained >$118M between 2020 & 2022, enabling the orgs to deepen their #influence in statehouses, courtrooms & communities across the country, a Washington Post analysis of tax records shows.
Children’s Health Defense, an #antivax grp founded by #RFKJr, received $23.5M in contributions, grants & other revenue in 2022— 8X what it collected the yr before the pandemic— allowing it to expand its state-based #lobbying ops to cover ½ the country. Another influential anti-vax grp, InformedConsentActionNetwork, nearly quadrupled its rev during that time to about $13.4M in 2022, giving it resources to finance lawsuits seeking to roll back #vaccine reqs as Americans’ faith in vaccines drops.
2 other grps, Front Line Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance & America’s Frontline Doctors, went from receiving $1M combined when they formed in 2020 to collecting more than $21M combined in 2022, acc/to the latest tax filings….
The 4 grps routinely buck #scientific consensus. Children’s Health Defense & Informed Consent Action Network raise doubts about the safety of #vaccines despite assurances from federal regulators. “Vaccines have never been safer than they are today,” the CDC said….
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