Communicating Science in the Time of a Pandemic

Communicating Science in the Time of a Pandemic

This Viewpoint uses the example of rapid changes to public reporting on the efficacy of hydroxychloroquine and remdesivir for COVID-19 to illustrate how misinformation damages the public's trust in science and medicine, and urges accuracy and circumspection in news reports of developments in th...

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Veröffentlicht in:JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association 2020-08, Vol.324 (5), p.443-444
Hauptverfasser: Saitz, Richard, Schwitzer, Gary
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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Communication
COVID-19
Hydroxychloroquine
Pandemics
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Zusammenfassung:This Viewpoint uses the example of rapid changes to public reporting on the efficacy of hydroxychloroquine and remdesivir for COVID-19 to illustrate how misinformation damages the public's trust in science and medicine, and urges accuracy and circumspection in news reports of developments in the pandemic.
ISSN:0098-7484
1538-3598
DOI:10.1001/jama.2020.12535