[PDF][PDF] COVID-19: misinformation can kill

BS Ghazal Aghagoli, EJ Siff, AC Tillman… - Rhode Island medical …, 2020 - rimed.org
INTRODUCTION False messages about the COVID-19 pandemic may spread faster than
the virus itself. From countless fabrications about coronavirus cures to fraudulent COVID-19 …

Coronavirus: the spread of misinformation

A Mian, S Khan - BMC medicine, 2020 - Springer
There has been a global rise recently in the spread of misinformation that has plagued the
scientific community and public. Disconnect between scientific consensus and members of …

COVID-19: time to flatten the infodemic curve

A Tentolouris, I Ntanasis-Stathopoulos… - Clinical and …, 2021 - Springer
Thousands of articles have been published regarding the coronavirus disease of 2019
(COVID-19). Most of them are not original research articles but reviews and editorials, and …

[PDF][PDF] This covid-19 misinformation went viral. Here's what we learned

K Starbird, E Spiro, J West - The Washington Post, 2020 - jevinwest.org
In a crisis, people struggle collectively to make sense of a complex and frightening situation—
and as a result, misinformation spreads. For several reasons, that's been especially true …

[HTML][HTML] The danger of misinformation in the COVID-19 crisis

T Nelson, N Kagan, C Critchlow, A Hillard… - Missouri Medicine, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is the first of its kind during this modern age of technology. Past
pandemics have similarly affected millions, but constant media coverage regarding COVID …

Rapid publications risk the integrity of science in the era of COVID-19

N Bagdasarian, GB Cross, D Fisher - BMC medicine, 2020 - Springer
Background Preprint manuscripts, rapid publications and opinion pieces have been
essential in permitting the lay press and public health authorities to preview data relating to …

COVID-19: the first posttruth pandemic

WE Parmet, J Paul - American Journal of Public Health, 2020 - ajph.aphapublications.org
A successful public health response to outbreaks such as COVID-19 depends on broad
dissemination and widespread acceptance of accurate information. 1 Yet, in recent weeks …

The flood of COVID-19 publications: a word of caution

P Tiwari, H Kaur - SN Comprehensive Clinical Medicine, 2020 - Springer
The entire world is currently experiencing difficult times with respect to physical, mental, and
socio-economic health. The rapid spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus …

exponential increase in COVID-19 related publications compared to other pandemic diseases

A Liu - Rambam Maimonides medical journal, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
When I wrote my first case report on a COVID-19 patient with meningoencephalitis in early
April 2020, a literature search back then on PubMed. gov under the keyword “COVID-19” …

[HTML][HTML] When misinformation goes viral: access to evidence-based information in the COVID-19 pandemic

X Ma, D Vervoort, JGY Luc - Journal of Global Health Science, 2020 - e-jghs.org
While most social media platforms did not yet exist during the 2003 severe acute respiratory
syndrome (SARS) outbreak, the 2015 Ebola outbreak cast a first glimpse of the risks of …