US was warned of threat from anti-vaxxers in event of pandemic.
America’s “anti-vaxxer movement” would pose a threat to national security in the event of a “pandemic with a novel organism”, an FBI-connected non-profit research group warned last year, just months before the global coronavirus pandemic began.
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Ben Harris-Roxas at the University of New South Wales, an expert on public health, endorsed the epidemiological reasoning in the paper.
“You can imagine some young police officer who’s trying to do a good job protecting his or her community.
InfraGard has been criticized by civil liberties groups from its origins as a security national entity and links to the FBI.
An FBI spokesperson said: “InfraGard is a non-profit organization serving as a public-private partnership among US businesses, individuals, and the FBI.”. »