The proliferation of fake news about the COVID-19 pandemic has been labelled a dangerous “infodemic“. Fake news spreads faster and more easily today through the internet, social media and instant messaging. These messages may contain useless, incorrect or even harmful information and advice, which can hamper the public health response and add to social disorder
Google late on Friday launched its COVID-19 Information & Resources website. This dedicated experience is focused on providing education, prevention, and local resources. Last Friday, President Donald Trump revealed that “Google” was developing a coronavirus screening website. It quickly emerged that Google sister company Verily was the one responsible for an effort that incorporates a symptoms questionnaire, directions to drive
As coronavirus (COVID-19) spreads across the globe, each country hopes that it has the ability to slow its growth in their own country. Source Forbes As of today, the United States falls in last place with regard to limiting COVID-19 growth according to the number of confirmed cases. According to the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center,
As their concern increases, Americans report taking recommended actions to avoid coronavirus, according to the AP-NORC Poll conducted in March 2020. As the scope of the global outbreak of COVID-19 continues to grow, along with intensifying efforts to stem its progress in the United States, Americans are becoming more worried about a possible infection from
Source STAT In the months since the novel coronavirus rose from a regional crisis to a global threat, drug makers large and small have scrambled to advance their best ideas for thwarting a pandemic. Some are taking a cue from older antivirals. Some are tapping tried-and-true technologies, and others are pressing forward with futuristic approaches to human
Researchers expected that antiviral drugs would help patients, but a new study from China said that this antiviral drug combination shows no benefit. Antiviral drugs that had held promise as a potential treatment for the coronavirus did not work in one of the first major studies in seriously ill patients, researchers from China reported on
The data set aims to accelerate scientific research that could fight the Covid-19 pandemic. Today researchers collaborating across several organizations released the Covid-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19), which includes over 24,000 research papers from peer-reviewed journals as well as sources like bioRxiv and medRxiv (websites where scientists can post non-peer-reviewed preprint papers). The research covers
Posts which promote “fake or ineffective treatments” for COVID-19 and deny “expert guidance” on the coronavirus are to be removed. Source Sky News Tweets that put people at risk of contracting the COVID-19 coronavirus as it rapidly spreads across the globe are to be removed by Twitter to help the public get accurate information and
A national USC survey reveals that more than 25% of Americans believe they’re in no danger of being infected with COVID-19 in the next three months. The vast majority recognize the value of handwashing and sanitizing to keep themselves safe from infection. s the rate of COVID-19 infections in the United States continues to grow,
SARS-CoV-2 stability similar to original SARS virus. Source NIH What The virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is stable for several hours to days in aerosols and on surfaces, according to a new study from National Institutes of Health, CDC, UCLA and Princeton University scientists in The New England Journal of Medicine. The scientists found
