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Defeating misinformation is key in ending the pandemic | American Medical Association
by Gerald E. Harmon
6 hours ago
As we confront yet another major surge in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations across the country, we are once more fighting…
The Al Capone Approach to Anti-vaxxers | The Atlantic
by Kaitlyn Tiffany
3 days ago
At the end of August, Reddit users told the company’s leadership they had blood on their hands. As part of…
Desperation, misinformation: how the ivermectin craze spread across the world | The Guardian
by Nick Robins-Early
3 days ago
As Covid-19 cases in Peru rose rapidly during the early months of the pandemic, public interest in the drug ivermectin…
Towards a Post-Pandemic World: Lessons from COVID-19 for Now and the Future | NASEM
5 days ago
Join the Forum on Microbial Threats for an exciting virtual conversation about what we've learned from 15 months of living…
Doctors Spreading COVID-19 Misinformation Have Not Been Penalized | Time
by Victoria Knight
5 days ago
Earlier this month, Dr. Rashid Buttar posted on Twitter that COVID-19 “was a planned operation” and shared an article alleging that most people…
Even Some Health Care Workers Refuse To Get The COVID-19 Vaccine | NPR
by Deepa Shivaram
September 20, 2021
As new data shows 1 in 500 Americans has died from COVID-19 and the delta variant continues to surge across…
Covid-19: ‘Vaccine misinformation a dilemma for young people’ | BBC News
by BBC News
September 20, 2021
"Misinformation" is creating a "real dilemma" for young people considering whether they should take the Covid-19 vaccine, Northern Ireland's mental…
Research note: Understanding offline Covid-19 conspiracy theories: A content analysis of The Light “truthpaper” | HKS Misinformation Review
by Rod Dacombe
September 17, 2021
This article explores the ways in which offline conspiracist material concerned with Covid-19 is presented and structured through a content…
Call for Proposals: “COVID-19 Recovery: Building future pandemic preparedness and understanding citizen engagement in the USA and UK” | The British Academy
by The British Academy (BA), the Social Science Research Council, and the Science & Innovation Network in the USA
September 16, 2021
This programme invites UK and US-based researchers at any career stage, and active in any discipline within the humanities and…