Health
‘Infodemic’ risks jeopardising virus vaccines – DAWN.com
Researcher says “disinformation has now reached an unapparelled scale.”
PARIS: As early as February, with the global pandemic spreading fast, the World Health Organisation issued a warning about an infodemic, a wave of fake news and misinformation about the deadly new disease on social media.
Now with hopes hanging on Covid-19 vaccines, the WHO and experts are warning those same phenomena may jeopardise roll-out of immunisation programmes meant to bring an end to the suffering.
The coronavirus disease is the first pandemic in history in which technology and social media…
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