The infodemics of COVID-19 amongst healthcare professionals in India

R Datta, AK Yadav, A Singh, K Datta… - Medical Journal Armed …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background There is a deluge of information and misinformation about COVID-19. The
present survey was conducted to explore the sources of information/misinformation for …

Editorial concern—possible reporting of the same patients with COVID-19 in different reports

H Bauchner, RM Golub, J Zylke - Jama, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
Since January 1, 2020, JAMA and the JAMA Network journals have received hundreds of
manuscripts and direct queries related to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), including …

United Nations seeks to counter COVID-19 misinformation with digital first responders

J Stephenson - JAMA Health Forum, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
As misinformation is spread through digital channels, it hinders the public health response
and provokes unrest, said Melissa Fleming, MSJ, UN Under-Secretary for Global …

[PDF][PDF] From Cholera to COVID-19: A Historical Review of Misinformation during Pandemics

CGF Acevedo - Progressio, 2020 - academia.edu
The case of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) presents us
a huge bulk of information to fight the spread of the virus, like staying at home, disinfection …

Covid 19: US government committee hears how social media spreads misinformation

JH Tanne - 2021 - bmj.com
Americans are endangered by misinformation about the covid-19 pandemic and promotion
of false treatments on social media, with platforms not doing enough to control falsehoods …

[PDF][PDF] An 'infodemic'in the pandemic: Human rights and Covid-19 misinformation

E Abrusci, S Dubberley, L McGregor - 2020 - repository.essex.ac.uk
The UN Secretary-General and the World Health Organisation have described the level of
misinformation and disinformation surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic as an infodemic. 2 …

[HTML][HTML] Fake news in COVID-19: A perspective

D Carrion-Alvarez… - Health promotion …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
* Corresponding Author: Diego Carrion-Alvarez, Email: diego. carrion@ udem. edu© 2020
The Author (s). This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative …

Understanding misinformation infodemic during public health emergencies due to large-scale disease outbreaks: a rapid review

N Chowdhury, A Khalid, TC Turin - Journal of Public Health, 2023 - Springer
Aim The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has caused hundreds of thousands of
deaths, impacted the flow of life and resulted in an immeasurable amount of socio-economic …

Managing the modern infodemic

N Tomes - CMAJ, 2020 - Can Med Assoc
Because it is easier and more profitable to produce, information is often conflated with its
more precious by-product, knowledge. The other useful distinction is between …

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) …