Misinformation and disinformation have emerged as major public issues during the COVID-
19 pandemic. In this article, I analyse how misinformation spreads online, the challenges of …

INTRODUCTION On 30 January 2020, as a consequence of the globally deteriorating
epidemiological situation, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared …

Appendix 1. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an unprecedented focus of the world's
scientific community on one topic. To quantify, we have calculated that 4% of all scientific …

There cannot be many people on earth who do not know what COVID-19 means, both
virologically and to all of us personally and professionally. This unprecedented global …

Abstract Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) emerged in late 2019, with the first case
identified in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China, on 12 December 2019. In order to perceive …

COVID-19 pandemic has shattered the global health economy. Advertisers take advantage
of fear and emotions in society due to the pandemic outbreak. Rumors spread rapidly …

Misinformation is by no means a new topic. Documented efforts to misinform date back as far
as 44 BC with a political smear campaign against Mark Antony carved on coins. Advances in …

Background: In this narrative review, we address the COVID-19 pandemic mis–dis
information crisis in which healthcare systems have been pushed to their limits, with …

Background Within weeks of identification of COVID-19 disease in China, social media and
digital information sharing platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, and WhatsApp saw the rapid …

The COVID-19 pandemic has presented many challenges for researchers, including the
need to rapidly obtain and disseminate information while still maintaining sufficiently …