How anti-vaxxers are telling people to remove vaccines from their bodies

To ensure delivery to your inbox add email@mail.nbcnews.com to your contacts Today's Top Stories from NBC News FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2021 Good morning, NBC News readers.     Today we look at how anti-vaccine influencers are advising pseudoscience treatments for people to remove the vaccine from their bodies, Britney Spears' crucial conservator hearing, and a blinking "Demon Star."   Here's the latest on that and everything else we're watching this Friday morning.     Covid vaccine holdouts are caving to mandates — then scrambling to 'undo' their shots In a TikTok video that has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times, Dr. Carrie Madej recommends adding in one cup of borax, a cleaning agent that's been banned as a food additive by the Food and Drug Administration, to "take nanotechnologies out of you."   The video is one of several methods anti-vaccine influencers and communities on social media have in recent weeks suggested to their many followers who have capitulated and received the Covid shot.   Anti-vaccine message boards are now littered with users caving to societal pressure or work mandates and receiving a coronavirus vaccination.    Long before Covid, anti-vaccine influencers and alternative health entrepreneurs promoted unproven and sometimes dangerous treatments they claimed would rid children of the alleged toxins that lingered after routine childhood immunizations. With Covid came a new group of believers.    Read more here.    Also in Covid news today, anti-viral drugs are on the way and we explain what they are and what they do. Friday's Top Stories Appeals court temporarily blocks Jan. 6 committee from obtaining Trump White House records A federal appeals court Thursday granted former President Donald Trump's request to temporarily block the National Archives from turning over his White House records to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. READ MORE Britney Spears conservatorship: Friday's hearing could determine pop star's fate If the termination petition is approved, the singer will gain full autonomy to make her own financial and medical decisions for the first time since 2008. READ MORE 'Fragile': Why a saccharine pop song has gotten under China's skin "It's a song about censorship," said Jeroen de Kloet, who studies the cultural implications of globalization. "But then it's being censored, so that only amplifies the impact of the song." READ MORE OPINION New York's Andrew Cuomo investigation hits a snag — because of course it does If we've learned anything, it's that we have to stop hoping that men will save us, writes Lyz Lenz. READ MORE Also in the News Ninth Astroworld victim dies from concert injuries As criticism of GOP infrastructure bill backers grows louder, McCarthy stays quiet Dominican Americans cope with 'lasting impact' of Flight 587 crash 20 years later Baltimore crime victims say police illegally seized their phones Abuse allegations against Sean Parnell threaten to upend GOP Senate primary in Pennsylvania Editor's Pick Special Report: An abusive Christian boarding home operated in the shadows. It also took teens' babies. Decades after an abusive Christian boarding home closed, women are searching for the children they were forced to give up for adoption. READ MORE Select Google released its Google Shopping Holiday 100 for 2021, its list of 100 of the top-trending gift ideas based on Google searches this season. One Fun Thing After many centuries, research suggests new facets to the blinking 'Demon Star' Lauri Jetsu, an astrophysicist at the University of Helsinki, is following a tradition that may stretch back thousands of years.   For more than a decade, he's studied the bright star Algol, one of the most unusual stars in the sky, with its brightness visibly changing every few days.   His  research suggests those fluctuations have been noted since at least ancient Egyptian times, and he believes  observations made more than 3,000 years ago can contribute to the modern scientific understanding of how Algol behaves.   Read the full story here.  Thanks for reading the Morning Rundown.    If you have any comments — likes, dislikes — send me an email at: patrick.smith@nbcuni.com.  If you're a fan, please forward it to your family and friends. They can sign-up here.    Thanks, Patrick Smith.      FOLLOW US     Want to receive NBC Breaking News and Special Alerts in your inbox? SIGN UP HERE Check out all of NBC Newsletters here.     Get the NBC News Mobile App   30 Rockefeller Plaza New York, NY 10112 View in browser | Unsubscribe | Manage Subscription | Contact | Privacy