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  • States Weigh Shielding Doctors’ COVID Misinformation, Unproven Remedies | The Pew Charitable Trusts

    April 7, 2022

    The controversy began in September, more than a year into the pandemic, when the Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners issued a warning to doctors in the state: Spreading misinformation about […]

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  • Partisan reasoning in a high stakes environment: Assessing partisan informational gaps on COVID-19 | HKS Misinformation Review

    April 3, 2022

    Using a survey conducted in July 2020, we establish a divide in the news sources partisans prefer for information about the COVID-19 pandemic and observe partisan disagreements in beliefs about […]

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  • Owning the Conversation: Assessing Responses to Russian and Chinese Information Operations Around COVID-19 | CEPA

    April 1, 2022

    Introduction The crisis around COVID-19 and the resulting “infodemic” has been exploited by authoritarian regimes to spread propaganda and disinformation among populations around the world. The Russian Federation and the Chinese […]

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  • How do you stop fake news about Covid? Not by silencing scientists who ask difficult questions | The Guardian

    March 29, 2022

    Carl Heneghan is an epidemiologist first and foremost, professor of evidence-based medicine at Oxford, probably many other things – good citizen, well-liked family member – and then, way down the […]

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  • Studying—and fighting—misinformation should be a top scientific priority, biologist argues | Science | AAAS

    March 24, 2022

    When Carl Bergstrom worked on plans to prepare the United States for a hypothetical pandemic, in the early 2000s, he and his colleagues were worried vaccines might not get to […]

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  • Research dispels myth that COVID-19 vaccines cause infertility, but misinformation persists | The Conversation

    March 23, 2022

    Misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines and fertility has propagated online despite the vaccines’ clear safety profile. Fortunately, those considering having kids can relax when it comes to these crucial shots. These claims lack any realistic basis. […]

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  • Misinformation that Omicron is ‘the last COVID-19 variant’ fuelling uptick worldwide: WHO | | UN News

    March 17, 2022

    A combination of factors, including misinformation that the pandemic is over, the lifting of mask mandates, ending physical distancing – and a more transmissible Omicron BA.2 variant – are causing […]

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  • The wellness community’s fight over COVID vaccine misinformation | Los Angeles Times

    March 17, 2022

    The vaccination selfie, showing a gloved hand holding a needle and a smiling face hidden behind a mask, looked like thousands of others posted to Instagram as the COVID-19 vaccine […]

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  • Florida’s latest anti-health political stunt is to cast doubt on kids’ vaccines | Ars Technica

    March 9, 2022

    Sometimes fighting a common enemy can unite a country, inspiring solidarity, bravery, and sacrifice. Ordinary citizens become heroes; leaders become icons. But sometimes—like in the United States right now—a common […]

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  • Prominent peddler of COVID misinfo pleads guilty to joining Capitol riot | Ars Technica

    March 7, 2022

    Dr. Simone Gold, a prominent anti-vaccine doctor who founded a group notorious for widely peddling COVID-19 misinformation, pleaded guilty on Thursday to joining the insurrectionists who violently attacked the US […]

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