TASK DEFINITION: Generate an explanation for the given claim using the provided supporting material from the paragraph. Please consider the following points while generating an output. 1) The claim will always have supporting proof in the paragraph, and the paragraph will have a clear point of view supporting the claim. 2) There can be instances where direct correlation to the claim is not available. Make use of the sentences in the paragraph to provide a corresponding output supporting the claim. 3) The explanation should be at least one and at most twelve sentences long.
PROBLEM: Paragraph: The baby died in November after being hospitalized for three months, the Department of Health said Wednesday. The last pediatric death related to pertussis, or whooping cough, was in 2013. The department's preliminary data shows that in 2019 there were 25 cases of pertussis in babies less than 6 months. Of those, eight were hospitalized, and two of the hospitalized cases were severe. Anyone can get pertussis, but it is most severe in infants, according to health officials. They are emphasizing the importance of vaccination, especially during pregnancy, to help prevent pertussis. Kristen Ehresmann, the department's director of infectious disease, said the tetanus, diphtheria and acellular pertussis, or Tdap, vaccine is recommended during the third trimester of each pregnancy. When the Tdap vaccine is given during pregnancy, the mother's body creates antibodies to fight off the pertussis bacteria, Ehresmann said. Some of those antibodies are passed to the baby before birth and offer short-term protection until the baby can be vaccinated. Claim: Infant death related to whooping cough in Minnesota.

SOLUTION: Minnesota health officials say the death of an infant has been linked to whooping cough.

PROBLEM: Paragraph: "Not applicable. No discussion of costs, but we think it's common knowledge that these supplements are inexpensive. We have problems with the way this was handled. The subhead said, ""32 percent reduced odds seen in postmenopausal women."" But readers need to know 32% of what? It also explained that the study surveyed ""women who were between the ages of 50 and 76 and all past menopause."" But risk rises with age. So baseline risk in a 50 year-old is different than that in a 76-year old. So we would have preferred seeing absolute numbers for those in their 50s, 60s and 70s to make the message more meaningful. Not applicable. No discussion of harms, but this is not a serious issue in this case. We're very pleased to see HealthDay include the line: ""we should not draw any conclusions about a causal relationship."" The study was ""observational"" only, and not a randomized trial that compared the use of fish oil with a group not using fish oil and the effect on cancer rates."" And the independent expert saying, ""The lower risk of breast cancer among women taking fish oil supplements could be due to chance."" (For comparison, an ABC News headline read, ""Breast Cancer Risk Lowered by Fish Oil."" That is far too definitive, and, thus, inaccurate. The story also touched on how squishy was the evidence when it quoted the researcher: ""She could not quantify the amount of fish oil supplements consumed, because ""current use"" was defined as any amount taken by a woman. ""Most women used it four to seven days a week. We don't know how much,"" she noted"" No overt disease mongering. An important comment was made by an independent expert from the American Cancer Society: ""The lower risk of breast cancer among women taking fish oil supplements could be due to chance."" There could have been at least one line about other research looking at lowering the risk of breast cancer. The availability of fish oil supplements is not in question. The story quoted the researcher saying ""while studies examining the link between consuming fish or omega-3 fatty acids and breast cancer risk have produced inconsistent results, this is the first study that suggested a connection between fish oil supplements and reduced breast cancer risk."" It does not appear that the story relied solely on a news release." Claim: Fish Oil Supplements Linked to Lower Risk of Breast Cancer: Study

SOLUTION: You can read the full review below. But we don't want to overlook what a big thing it is to see improvement in the two areas already noted. Keep it up, HealthDay. Breast cancer risk is not a one-size-fits-all story. It's age-dependent. And this story should have pushed the researchers for age-specific breakdowns.

PROBLEM: Paragraph: The "Getting to Know the Real John McCain" commentary that began making the rounds in forwarded emails in August 2017 contains a combination of verifiable facts and opinions about John McCain's first marriage to Carol Shepp McCain. The commentary is largely based on a Daily Mail article that ran in 2008, when John McCain was running for president. The article included rare public comments from McCain's ex-wife, Carol Shepp McCain, about the couple's divorce and about John's mindset after he returned from Vietnam after spending five and a half years as a prisoner of war. We couldn't track down the original "Getting to Know the Real John McCain" commentary, or verify that a woman named Burma Davis Posey was its actual author. But we can look at some of the biographical details included in the commentary. The commentary's central theme is that Carol McCain was a loyal wife and mother and that John selfishly divorced her because of life-altering injuries that she sustained in a car accident on Christmas Eve of 1969. Both John and Carol McCain have agreed that their divorce fell apart because of John's immaturity, but Carol disputes the idea that her accident was the central cause. For his part, John McCain wrote in his 2002 memoir "Worth Fighting For" that:"My marriage'scollapse wasattributable to myown selfishness andimmaturity. Theblame was entirelymine." For her part, Carol McCain told the Daily Mail in a 2008:"My accident is well recorded. I had 23 operations, I am fiveinches shorter than I used tobe and I was in hospital forsix months. It was just awful,but it wasn't the reason formy divorce. My marriage ended becauseJohn McCain didn't want tobe 40, he wanted to be 25. You know that happensitjust does." And the commentary's claims about John McCain meeting Cindy and beginning a relationship with her before his first marriage ended appears to be true. John claimed in "Worth Fighting For" that his relationship with Cindy didn't begin until after he separated from Carol, but others dispute that. A 2008 Los Angeles Times story that quotes a friend of John McCain who was at the reception in Hawaii where John met Cindy said that some people in his social circle believed that the McCains had already separated by the time John and Cindy met based on John's behavior: By contrast, someof McCain'sfriends, includingthe Senate aidewho was at thereception whereMcCain first met (Cindy) Hensley, believedhe was separated atthat time. Albert "Pete"Lakeland, the aidewho was withMcCain at thereception in Hawaiiin April 1979, saidof the introductionto Hensley: "It waslike he was struckby Cupid's arrow. He was justenormouslysmitten." As the pair begandating, Lakelandallowed them tospend a weekendtogether at hissummer home inMaryland, he said. The senator hasacknowledged thathe behaved badly,and that his swiftdivorce andremarriage broughta cold shoulderfrom the Reagansthat lasted years. In the end, the "Getting to Know John McCain" commentary draws from a number of credible reports that were published during the 2008 presidential campaign. Many of the biographical details about John McCain and his first marriage are true, but they're also colored by the author's unfavorable view of McCain. A number of rumors about John McCain went viral in July and August 2017 as the senator's battle with brain cancer, and his deciding "no" vote on the Obamacare repeal bill drew attention to him. We investigated claims that Richard Nixon pardoned John McCainand that John McCain started the USS Forrestal fire. Claim: A commentary titled, "Getting to Know the Real John McCain" by Burma Davis Posey began making the rounds in August 2017 after Senator McCain voted against the GOP's plan to repeal Obamacare.

SOLUTION:
Getting to Know the Real John McCain by Burma Davis Posey