Virulent is coming to PBS! 100% of your tax-deductible donation via the International Documentary Assn will be used to hire PR & social media to help us get the word out.
Virulent: The Vaccine War explores the history and consequences of vaccine hesitancy and denial. It’s a war anti-vaccine activists have been fighting for decades. And COVID-19 is what they practiced for: A national conversation about vaccine safety and mandates.
We put a human face on scientists and others in the trenches, including:
- Dr. Paul Offit, one of the world’s preeminent virologists and Project Medical Advisor
- Dr. Peter Salk, polio inventor Dr. Jonas Salk’s public health expert son
- Arthur Caplan, PhD, who founded NYU’s Division of Medical Ethics
- Kevin Roose, NY Times columnist & expert on how disinformation spreads online
- Ethan Lindenberger, student activist who got vaccinated against his parents’ wishes
The film also shines a harsh spotlight on leaders of the anti-vaccine movement, including Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has spent 20 years disseminating bad science to Black Americans and others who hold the Kennedy name in high esteem.
Virulent: The Vaccine War is an invitation to think again, exposing the myths and laying bare the facts about vaccine science, its history, and what it will take to eradicate the world’s most deadly diseases.
Watch our mini-history of vaccines
Virulent is coming to PBS! 100% of your tax-deductible donation via the International Documentary Assn will be used to hire PR & social media to help us get the word out.
Virulent: The Vaccine War explores the history and consequences of vaccine hesitancy and denial. It’s a war anti-vaccine activists have been fighting for decades. And COVID-19 is what they practiced for: A national conversation about vaccine safety and mandates.
We put a human face on scientists and others in the trenches, including:
- Dr. Paul Offit, one of the world’s preeminent virologists and Project Medical Advisor
- Dr. Peter Salk, polio inventor Dr. Jonas Salk’s public health expert son
- Arthur Caplan, PhD, who founded NYU’s Division of Medical Ethics
- Kevin Roose, NY Times columnist & expert on how disinformation spreads online
- Ethan Lindenberger, student activist who got vaccinated against his parents’ wishes
The film also shines a harsh spotlight on leaders of the anti-vaccine movement, including Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has spent 20 years disseminating bad science to Black Americans and others who hold the Kennedy name in high esteem.
Virulent: The Vaccine War is an invitation to think again, exposing the myths and laying bare the facts about vaccine science, its history, and what it will take to eradicate the world’s most deadly diseases.
Watch our mini-history of vaccines