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Ditch social media, rely on medical force for info on Covid-19: Health experts
Updated On: 26 July, 2021 07:41 AM IST | Mumbai | Vinod Kumar Menon
Medical experts raise concerns over disinformation and misinformation that may cause people to take precautions lightly or undertake dangerous experiments, stress on need for single agency to educate citizens
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Amid the Covid-19 pandemic and its emerging variants, health experts have raised concerns about misinformation on social networking sites adding to the confusion and fear. It has been stressed that citizens get their doubts cleared from experts instead of relying on social media.
Dr Subhash Hira, professor of Global Health, University of Washington-Seattle and former official at the World Bank-DC, said, “Misinformation and disinformation can deceive audiences but disinformation is intentional and maliciously deceptive. The broad areas of misinformation are the Wuhan origin of Covid-19, figures of patients and deaths, scientific publications and repurposed medicines, vaccines and their trxial results, global economies and recession, climate change effects, etc.”
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