5 ways to determine if you've received accurate coronavirus information, according to an epidemiologist (by syramadad)
Dr. Syra Madad is an infectious disease epidemiologist in NYC, Fellow at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and member of the COVID19 Taskforce at the Federation of American Scientists.
As a public health expert, she says that she always has to fight the "contagion of misinformation" — but there are ways for people to vet their sources.Infectious disease outbreaks often come in parallel with the rise of infodemic – the rapid spread of information that is typically unreliable and not based on scientific merit.
And third, misinformation makes combating the pandemic that much harder. It undermines the public health response, erodes confidence and trust in measures to control the pandemic , perpetuates the outbreak, and jeopardizes public health interventions . With Ebola the misinformation was everything from fear-mongering, demagoguery, to rumors of its airborne spread in the US . A vivid memory from my experience responding to the Ebola outbreak in Texas: My dentist calling to cancel my routine cleaning appointment in 2014 because of my involvement in the Ebola Surge Team.
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