The Peru Approach against the COVID-19 Infodemic: Insights and Strategies

The COVID-19 epidemic has spawned an “infodemic,” with excessive and unfounded information that hinders an appropriate public health response. This perspective describes a selection of COVID-19 fake news that originated in Peru and the government’s response to this information. Unlike other countrie...

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Autores principales: Alvarez-Risco, Aldo, Mejia, Christian R., Delgado-Zegarra, Jaime, Del-Aguila-Arcentales, Shyla, Arce-Esquivel, Arturo A., Valladares-Garrido, Mario J., Rosas del Portal, Mauricio, Villegas, León F., Curioso, Walter H., Sekar, M. Chandra, Yáñez, Jaime A.
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Publicado: The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7410469/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32500853
http://dx.doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.20-0536
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author Alvarez-Risco, Aldo
Mejia, Christian R.
Delgado-Zegarra, Jaime
Del-Aguila-Arcentales, Shyla
Arce-Esquivel, Arturo A.
Valladares-Garrido, Mario J.
Rosas del Portal, Mauricio
Villegas, León F.
Curioso, Walter H.
Sekar, M. Chandra
Yáñez, Jaime A.
author_facet Alvarez-Risco, Aldo
Mejia, Christian R.
Delgado-Zegarra, Jaime
Del-Aguila-Arcentales, Shyla
Arce-Esquivel, Arturo A.
Valladares-Garrido, Mario J.
Rosas del Portal, Mauricio
Villegas, León F.
Curioso, Walter H.
Sekar, M. Chandra
Yáñez, Jaime A.
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description The COVID-19 epidemic has spawned an “infodemic,” with excessive and unfounded information that hinders an appropriate public health response. This perspective describes a selection of COVID-19 fake news that originated in Peru and the government’s response to this information. Unlike other countries, Peru was relatively successful in controlling the infodemic possibly because of the implementation of prison sentences for persons who created and shared fake news. We believe that similar actions by other countries in collaboration with social media companies may offer a solution to the infodemic problem.
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spelling pubmed-74104692020-08-07 The Peru Approach against the COVID-19 Infodemic: Insights and Strategies Alvarez-Risco, Aldo Mejia, Christian R. Delgado-Zegarra, Jaime Del-Aguila-Arcentales, Shyla Arce-Esquivel, Arturo A. Valladares-Garrido, Mario J. Rosas del Portal, Mauricio Villegas, León F. Curioso, Walter H. Sekar, M. Chandra Yáñez, Jaime A. Am J Trop Med Hyg Perspective Piece The COVID-19 epidemic has spawned an “infodemic,” with excessive and unfounded information that hinders an appropriate public health response. This perspective describes a selection of COVID-19 fake news that originated in Peru and the government’s response to this information. Unlike other countries, Peru was relatively successful in controlling the infodemic possibly because of the implementation of prison sentences for persons who created and shared fake news. We believe that similar actions by other countries in collaboration with social media companies may offer a solution to the infodemic problem. The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2020-08 2020-06-04 /pmc/articles/PMC7410469/ /pubmed/32500853 http://dx.doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.20-0536 Text en © The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Perspective Piece
Alvarez-Risco, Aldo
Mejia, Christian R.
Delgado-Zegarra, Jaime
Del-Aguila-Arcentales, Shyla
Arce-Esquivel, Arturo A.
Valladares-Garrido, Mario J.
Rosas del Portal, Mauricio
Villegas, León F.
Curioso, Walter H.
Sekar, M. Chandra
Yáñez, Jaime A.
The Peru Approach against the COVID-19 Infodemic: Insights and Strategies
title The Peru Approach against the COVID-19 Infodemic: Insights and Strategies
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title_fullStr The Peru Approach against the COVID-19 Infodemic: Insights and Strategies
title_full_unstemmed The Peru Approach against the COVID-19 Infodemic: Insights and Strategies
title_short The Peru Approach against the COVID-19 Infodemic: Insights and Strategies
title_sort peru approach against the covid-19 infodemic: insights and strategies
topic Perspective Piece
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7410469/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32500853
http://dx.doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.20-0536
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