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CDC nominee to face questions about measles outbreak, vaccine policy
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-45% Negative
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The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.
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42% : Defend Public Health, a recently formed group of public health researchers, health-care workers and advocates, is urging senators to reject Weldon's nomination.39% : Trump plucked Weldon from political retirement for the role, selecting a social conservative best known in public health circles for promoting the debunked link between vaccines and autism.
30% : In announcing his pick, Trump called Weldon a "respected conservative leader on fiscal and social issues" who held health agencies accountable.
28% : Days after a 6-year-old unvaccinated girl died, in the measles outbreak, Kennedy did not explicitly urge vaccination, said Gregg Gonsalves, an infectious diseases expert at Yale University and member of Defend Public Health.
27% : The group pointed to promises Kennedy made to senators that he would not promote anti-vaccine policy when he assumed the leadership of HHS.
*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.
