{"id":349,"date":"2022-09-22T09:16:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T14:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=349"},"modified":"2022-12-13T11:23:04","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T17:23:04","slug":"conspiracy-theories-about-covid-19-help-nobody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2022\/09\/22\/conspiracy-theories-about-covid-19-help-nobody\/","title":{"rendered":"Conspiracy Theories About COVID-19 Help Nobody"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2022\/09\/15\/conspiracy-theories-covid-19-commission\/\">Foreign Policy<\/a> &#8211; In July 2020, the<em>\u00a0Lancet<\/em>, one of the world\u2019s premier medical journals,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140-6736(20)31494-X\/fulltext#%20\">announced<\/a>\u00a0the creation of a COVID-19 \u201cCommission\u201d with the stated mission \u201cto help speed up global, equitable, and lasting solutions to the pandemic.\u201d Many of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/covid19commission.org\/commissioners\">commissioners<\/a>\u00a0are distinguished scientists, doctors, former politicians, or policy experts with a clear connection to the remit of a COVID-19 Commission. But the choice of chair was an unusual one. Jeffrey Sachs is a Columbia University economist with no expertise in virology, evolution, epidemiology, or public health.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign Policy &#8211; In July 2020, the\u00a0Lancet, one of the world\u2019s premier medical journals,\u00a0announced\u00a0the creation of a COVID-19 \u201cCommission\u201d with the stated mission \u201cto help speed up global, equitable, and lasting solutions to the pandemic.\u201d Many of the\u00a0commissioners\u00a0are distinguished scientists, doctors, former politicians, or policy experts with a clear connection to the remit of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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-349","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\/349","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":350,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions\/350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}