“Immune Boosting” in the time of COVID: selling immunity on Instagram

“Immune boosting” is a trending topic during the COVID-19 pandemic. The concept of “immune boosting” is scientifically misleading and often used to market unproven products and therapies. This paper presents an analysis of popular immune-boosting posts from Instagram. Of the sampled posts, all promo...

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Autores principales: Wagner, Darren N., Marcon, Alessandro R., Caulfield, Timothy
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7468087/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32905318
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13223-020-00474-6
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spelling pubmed-74680872020-09-03 “Immune Boosting” in the time of COVID: selling immunity on Instagram Wagner, Darren N. Marcon, Alessandro R. Caulfield, Timothy Allergy Asthma Clin Immunol Letter to the Editor “Immune boosting” is a trending topic during the COVID-19 pandemic. The concept of “immune boosting” is scientifically misleading and often used to market unproven products and therapies. This paper presents an analysis of popular immune-boosting posts from Instagram. Of the sampled posts, all promoted “immune boosting” as beneficial, nearly all involved commercial interests, and many used scientific and medical rhetoric in their messaging. BioMed Central 2020-09-03 /pmc/articles/PMC7468087/ /pubmed/32905318 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13223-020-00474-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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