[PDF][PDF] Going viral: doctors must combat fake news in the fight against covid-19

C O'Connor, M Murphy - Ir Med J, 2020 - researchgate.net
Misinformation is false information that is communicated without deliberate malice, while
disinformation is communicated with the intent to deceive. In Ireland we have noted a trend …

Medical knowledge about COVID-19 is travelling at the speed of mistrust: why this is relevant to primary care

T Tharmaratnam, A D'Urzo, M Cazzola - Family Practice, 2022 - academic.oup.com
In 2005, the International Health Regulations (IHR) were established by the World Health
Organization (WHO) and endorsed by 196 countries. This legally binding framework aimed …

Is COVID-19 immune to misinformation? A brief overview

S Ali, A Khalid, E Zahid - Asian bioethics review, 2021 - Springer
During the current COVID-19 pandemic, misinformation is a major challenge, raising several
social and psychological concerns. This article highlights the prevailing misinformation as …

The Covid-19 infodemic—applying the epidemiologic model to counter misinformation

D Scales, J Gorman, KH Jamieson - New England Journal of …, 2021 - Mass Medical Soc
The Covid-19 Infodemic Millions of people have been exposed to deceptive material about
Covid-19. An approach to counteracting deceptions and misconceptions could parallel …

[HTML][HTML] Information and misinformation on COVID-19: a cross-sectional survey study

L Gupta, AY Gasparyan, DP Misra… - Journal of Korean …, 2020 - synapse.koreamed.org
Background The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has led to a large volume
of publications, a barrage of non-reviewed preprints on various professional repositories …

Information and misinformation on COVID-19: A cross-sectional survey study

G Latika, GA Yuri, MD Prasanna, A Vikas… - Journal of Korean …, 2020 - dbpia.co.kr
Background: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has led to a large
volume of publications, a barrage of non-reviewed preprints on various professional …

An exploration of how fake news is taking over social media and putting public health at risk

SB Naeem, R Bhatti, A Khan - Health Information & Libraries …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Recent statistics show that almost 1/4 of a million people have died and four million people
are affected either with mild or serious health problems caused by coronavirus (COVID‐19) …

[HTML][HTML] Not just conspiracy theories: Vaccine opponents and proponents add to the COVID-19 'infodemic'on Twitter

AM Jamison, DA Broniatowski, M Dredze… - Harvard Kennedy …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract In February 2020, the World Health Organization announced an 'infodemic'--a
deluge of both accurate and inaccurate health information--that accompanied the global …

[HTML][HTML] Conspiracy theories in the era of COVID‐19: A tale of two pandemics

RA Stein, O Ometa, SP Shetty, A Katz… - … journal of clinical …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Conspiracy theories, omnipresent in traditional and modern societies, 1 span demographic
strata and political differences2 and have fascinated people for ages. 3 While many …

[HTML][HTML] COVID-19: the trends of conspiracy theories vs facts

FO Bernard, JA Akaito, I Joseph… - The Pan African Medical …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) caused by SARS-CoV-2-a new single-stranded
RNA virus with respiratory system proclivity and epithelial cell-is a novel infectious disease …