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Battling the COVID-19 infodemic in an Irish context: the role of iHealthFacts

2020-11-09

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On the 11 th of March 2020, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared a global pandemic due to the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). This was one month after Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the WHO declared that we are also fighting an ‘infodemic’. The WHO has described an infodemic as an “over-abundance of information – some accurate and some not – that m...

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DOI: 10.12688/hrbopenres.13174.1

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