{"id":2092,"date":"2023-01-03T18:39:57","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T00:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=2092"},"modified":"2023-01-03T18:39:59","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T00:39:59","slug":"as-covid-19-continues-to-spread-so-does-misinformation-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/01\/03\/as-covid-19-continues-to-spread-so-does-misinformation-about-it\/","title":{"rendered":"As Covid-19 Continues to Spread, So Does Misinformation About It"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/12\/28\/technology\/covid-misinformation-online.html\">NYT<\/a>) Doctors are exasperated by the persistence of false and misleading claims about the virus.  As Covid cases, hospitalizations and deaths\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/12\/06\/nyregion\/nyc-covid-testing-response.html\">rise<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/12\/07\/us\/as-covid-cases-rise-in-a-weary-los-angeles-so-does-apathy.html\">in parts of the country<\/a>, myths and misleading narratives continue to evolve and spread, exasperating overburdened doctors and evading content moderators. What began in 2020 as rumors that cast doubt on the existence or seriousness of Covid quickly evolved into often outlandish claims about dangerous technology lurking in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/10\/01\/technology\/membership-of-anti-mask-facebook-groups-jumps-sharply.html\">masks<\/a>\u00a0and the supposed miracle cures from unproven\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/11\/22\/us\/politics\/covid-misinformation-gab.html\">drugs<\/a>, like\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/consumers\/consumer-updates\/why-you-should-not-use-ivermectin-treat-or-prevent-covid-19\" target=\"_blank\">ivermectin<\/a>. Last year\u2019s vaccine rollout fueled another wave of unfounded alarm. Now, in addition to all the claims still being bandied about, there are conspiracy theories about the long-term effects of the treatments, researchers say.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(NYT) Doctors are exasperated by the persistence of false and misleading claims about the virus. As Covid cases, hospitalizations and deaths\u00a0rise\u00a0in parts of the country, myths and misleading narratives continue to evolve and spread, exasperating overburdened doctors and evading content moderators. What began in 2020 as rumors that cast doubt on the existence or seriousness [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misinformation-disinformation-and-conspiracy-theories"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2093,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092\/revisions\/2093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}