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The World Health Organization has classified vaccine related misinformation into five topic areas. These are: threat of disease (vaccine preventable diseases are harmless), trust (questioning the trustworthiness of healthcare authorities who administer vaccines), alternative methods (such as alternative medicine to replace vaccination), effectiveness (vaccines do not work) and safety (vaccines ...
This misinformation, some created by anti-vaccination activists, has proliferated and may have made many people averse to vaccination. [1] Critics of vaccine mandates have argued that such requirements infringe on individual medical choice and personal autonomy.
It is an addictive drug that causes serious side effects and is harmful to people’s health." The World Health Organization also debunked the claim. [57] [58] [59] Facebook flagged the rumour as misinformation. [60] A claim that cannabis could protect against the coronavirus appeared on YouTube, along with a petition to legalize cannabis in ...
The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), founded under the name Dissatisfied Parents Together (DPT) in 1982, is an American 501(c)(3) [1] organization that has been widely criticized as a leading source of fearmongering and misinformation about vaccines.
On March 19, Trump falsely claimed the drug chloroquine was approved by the Food and Drug Administration as a treatment for COVID-19. This led the FDA to say it had not approved any drugs or therapies for COVID-19, and strongly advised people against taking it outside of a hospital or clinical trial, due to possibly fatal side effects. [36]
A new report by the Center for Countering Digital Hate finds that "just 12 anti-vaxxers are responsible for almost two-thirds of anti-vaccine content circulating on social media platforms."
Misinformation that the Indian government was spreading an "anti-corona" drug in the country during Janata curfew, a stay-at-home curfew enforced in India, went viral on social media. [467] Following the first reported case of COVID-19 in Nigeria in February, untested cures and treatments began to spread via platforms such as WhatsApp. [468]
Doximity, a social network for medical professionals, is not immune to the spread of Covid misinformation.