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COVID-19: the medium is the message

2020; Elsevier BV; Volume: 395; Issue: 10228 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/s0140-6736(20)30600-0

1474-547X

Laurie Garrett,

COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts

In a world of polarising distrust and trade tensions, the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), both within nations and internationally, is aided and abetted by misinformation that circumnavigates the planet in microseconds. Such misinformation is not all malevolent, although its impact can be devastating. The only bastion of defence against rising public panic, financial market hysteria, and unintended misunderstandings of the science and epidemiology of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is agile, accurate, worldwide-available counter-information that takes the high moral ground and conveys a consistently science-driven narrative.