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Review
. 2020 Aug;20(8):449-450.
doi: 10.1038/s41577-020-0380-8.

A call to arms: helping family, friends and communities navigate the COVID-19 infodemic

Heidi J Larson  1   2
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Review

A call to arms: helping family, friends and communities navigate the COVID-19 infodemic

Heidi J Larson. Nat Rev Immunol. 2020 Aug.

Abstract

With information on COVID-19 evolving daily, the public is confronted with a mix of partial information, conflicting information and sometimes outright misinformation. Who should they turn to for the truth? In the context of acute uncertainty, I discuss what scientists can do to help mitigate the misinformation about what we do know and give some context to help decision-making in the unfolding story of COVID-19.

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Conflict of interest statement

In addition to public sector research grants, the author’s research group has received grants from GSK and Merck for vaccine acceptance research.

Figures

Fig. 1
Fig. 1. Monitoring social media related to COVID-19.
Keywords that have appeared in our social media monitoring from 1 January 2020 (part a) and from 1 May 2020 (part b). From 1 May 2020, ‘lack of immunity’ starts appearing.
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