A call to arms: helping family, friends and communities navigate the COVID-19 infodemic

With information on COVID-19 evolving daily, the public is confronted with a mix of partial information, conflicting information and sometimes outright misinformation. Who should they turn to for the truth? In the context of acute uncertainty, I discuss what scientists can do to help mitigate the mi...

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Autor principal: Larson, Heidi J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7331910/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32616908
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41577-020-0380-8
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spelling pubmed-73319102020-07-06 A call to arms: helping family, friends and communities navigate the COVID-19 infodemic Larson, Heidi J. Nat Rev Immunol Comment With information on COVID-19 evolving daily, the public is confronted with a mix of partial information, conflicting information and sometimes outright misinformation. Who should they turn to for the truth? In the context of acute uncertainty, I discuss what scientists can do to help mitigate the misinformation about what we do know and give some context to help decision-making in the unfolding story of COVID-19. Nature Publishing Group UK 2020-07-02 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7331910/ /pubmed/32616908 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41577-020-0380-8 Text en © Springer Nature Limited 2020 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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