Sylvie Briand, director of Infectious Hazards Management at WHO's Health Emergencies Programme and architect of WHO's strategy to counter the infodemic risk, told The Lancet,“We know that every outbreak will be accompanied by a kind of tsunami of information, but also within this information you...
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In mid-February, World Health Organization director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesustoldan international security conference: “We’re not just fighting an epidemic. We’re fighting an infodemic.” As COVID-19 cases have surged across the globe, so has misinformation.According toresearch by the ...
for research that leads to new treatments. "The term 'infodemic' implies random junk, but that's wrong," said Peter Hotez, a vaccine researcher at Baylor College of Medicine in Texas. "This is an organized political movement, and the health and science sectors don't know what to do." ...
In the current era of big data, it is critical to address people’s demand for health literacy. At present, the traditional mode of communicating scientific health knowledge and information technology is interchangeable, resulting in the emergence of a n
(Howarth et al.,Citation2020). Alongside the COVID-19 pandemic, we are also experiencing what the World Health Organization has termed an “infodemic,” where misinformation spreads faster and more easily than the virus itself, posing a distinct danger (Barzilai & Chinn,Citation2020). This ...
designed to investigate the status, services, and resources disclosed via websites of academic medical/health sciences libraries (MHSLs) in the United States and document how they adapted and continued to provide support to help fight the health crisis and the resulting "infodemic" through various ...
Information overload on social media during the pandemic has been categorized as a form of “infodemic”, which refers to an extensive amount of information including fake and/or uncontrolled information about the COVID-19 vaccines that moves faster than the virus outbreak itself (Fiorillo & Gorwo...