Alarming Study Shows Doctors Can Be an Insidious Source of Misinformation : ScienceAlert - By REBECCA DYER"A new study reveals 52 US doctors shared misinformation about COVID-19 on social media and other online platforms, including the claim that "most who took COVID vaccines will be dead by 2025."
Public health researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst found physicians in various medical specialties spread false information about COVID-19 vaccines, treatments, and masks, with some reaching large audiences.
"This study was the first, to our knowledge, to identify the types of COVID-19 misinformation propagated by US physicians on social media and the platforms they used, as well as characterize the physicians who spread the misinformation," Sahana Sule and colleagues write in their published paper.
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