5 Myths About Coronavirus Outbreak
As the coronavirus outbreak carries on to wreak havoc around the world, giving rise to an unprecedented health crisis, experts warn about another threat: the fastest spread of misinformation and misconceptions. With the growing number of cases in many parts of the world, fact-checking organizations are finding a considerable amount of falsehoods about the pandemic in news, politics, organizations, and, last but not least social media! By far, social media apps are playing a huge role in laying out fake news; this is causing panic in public. People believe anything and everything that they see on social media without even authenticating it.
“We need a vaccine against misinformation,” said Mike Ryan, MD, the executive director of the health emergency program at the World Health Organizati...