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Unvaccinated TikTok Users Believe They Will Be ‘Lone Survivors’ | Vice
by Anna Merlan
May 19, 2021
TikTok users are falsely claiming that vaccinated people will soon die, leaving them to inherit the earth. The videos—which represent…
Lessons from the pandemic’s superstar data scientist, Youyang Gu | MIT Technology Review
by Siobhan Roberts
April 28, 2021
“It became clear that we’re not going to reach herd immunity in 2021, at least definitely not across the whole…
Managing the infodemic about COVID‐19: Strategies for clinicians and researchers | Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
by Jan Scott
April 19, 2021
The exponential increase in demand for and dissemination of information about COVID‐19 means the pandemic has been accompanied by an…
The women fighting South Africa’s ‘infodemic’ | BBC News
by BBC Trending
April 5, 2021
When Sarah Downs tweeted about how her grandmother had died from Covid-19, there was one response she did not expect.…
The Antiscience Movement Is Escalating, Going Global and Killing Thousands | Scientific American
by Peter J. Hotez
March 29, 2021
Antiscience has emerged as a dominant and highly lethal force, and one that threatens global security, as much as do…
Comusav, a fringe health group known for spreading anti-vaccine sentiment, promotes chlorine dioxide as a cure for Covid-19 online | First Draft
by Daniel Acosta-Ramon
March 18, 2021
From the start of the pandemic, the self-described alternative health group Coalición Mundial Salud y Vida (Comusav) has shared content…
NIH director tells faith leaders getting vaccinated is a ‘love your neighbor opportunity’ | CNN
by Christina Maxouris and Steve Almasy
March 17, 2021
National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins said Tuesday that faith leaders can help get more people to be…
Data deficits around Covaxin contribute to vaccine hesitancy in India | First Draft
by Ali Abbas Ahmadi
March 3, 2021
The world’s biggest Covid-19 vaccination drive is underway in India, with the ambitious goal of vaccinating 300 million people by…
On social media, vaccine misinformation mixes with extreme faith | Anchorage Daily News
by Elizabeth Dwoskin
February 19, 2021
In an insular world on the social media app TikTok, young Christians act out biblically inspired scenes in which they…