Vaccine Misinformation
It’s difficult to combat vaccine misinformation, as anti-vax and anti-science groups have strong organization and distrust of authority.
It’s difficult to combat vaccine misinformation, as anti-vax and anti-science groups have strong organization and distrust of authority.
There can be a misconception that research and the scientific process provide absolute truth, but scientific knowledge is always tentative and subject to revision.
Covid-19 is not alone in its pernicious spread, causing mass hysteria among the public. Another pandemic has ravaged communities, taking advantage of the chaos caused by Covid-19 — a pandemic of misinformation.
Watch the full recording of the panel “To Your Health! Experts on Fact and Fiction in a Pandemic” that took place on March 9th, 2022.
Fake news related to this virus spread rampantly in 2020 through social media platforms, capitalizing on existing anxiety and uncertainty surrounding the pandemic and inciting panic, distrust and chaos.
Information on the coronavirus wasn’t available quickly enough, which left a void for conspiracy theories and misinformation to fill in the gaps.