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This photo illustration created in Washington, DC, on July 26, 2023, shows the homepage of "Unjected," a dating platform for unvaccinated people, in front of the cover image of a Facebook group for unvaccinated singles. The Covid-19 pandemic may have receded, but dating apps, websites and social media groups still offer to unite vaccine-hating singles who believe debunked falsehoods such as coronavirus jabs contaminate the bloodstream and cause infertility or autism. The trend underscores how the deeply polarizing anti-vaccine sentiment has become an entrenched identity for many who wilfully resist or ignore scientific assertions that inoculations saved tens of millions of lives globally when the pandemic was raging. (Photo by Stefani Reynolds / AFP) (Photo by STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)