A team of researchers from King's College London and Monash University has created a database of information that relates COVID-19 and type II diabetes. The team has created the database for two reasons—the first is that ...
COVID-19 has not only upended our personal lives, it has dramatically changed scientific research. In response to the rapid spread of the virus, scientists around the world have had to find new ways to collaborate and solve ...
Jan 14, 2021
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A new SFU-led study finds that about half of media stories in early 2020 featuring COVID-19 "preprint" research—research that has not yet been peer-reviewed—accurately framed the studies as being preprints or unverified ...
Jan 6, 2021
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Recent polls indicate that more than a third of the country has concerns about a vaccine that in all likelihood will be the only reliable way to end to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Oct 30, 2020
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US health officials are pushing Americans to get vaccinated against the flu to help prevent hospitals already busy battling COVID-19 from being overwhelmed this winter, but false claims are threatening their efforts.
Oct 17, 2020
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Britain has secured access to 90 million doses of two "promising" coronavirus vaccines, the government said Friday, taking its total orders of potential COVID-19 vaccines to nearly 350 million doses.
Aug 14, 2020
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In late March and early April, President Trump repeatedly proclaimed that hydroxychloroquine could prevent or treat COVID-19. Within days, the number of prescriptions for the drug skyrocketed even though evidence it could ...
Jul 9, 2020
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The COVID-19 pandemic has introduced unique challenges for public health practitioners and health communicators that warrant an expansion of existing health communication principles to take into consideration.
Jul 1, 2020
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The coronavirus pandemic is accompanied by what the World Health Organisation describes as an "infodemic" – misinformation, disinformation or conspiracy theories: "coronavirus myths." These circulate on social media and ...
Apr 17, 2020
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Pandemic. Politics. An upending of life at a level that few Americans have ever experienced. And all of it amplified by social media.
Mar 20, 2020
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