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York Region COVID-19 Guidance

An online repository of guidance documents relevant to COVID-19 for use of York Region Public Health

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Analytic thinking predicts accuracy ratings and willingness to share COVID-19 misinformation in Australia [Mem Cognit Aug 2021]
Can the crowd judge truthfulness? A longitudinal study on recent misinformation about COVID-19 [Pers Ubiquitous Comput Sep 2021]
Corona Virus (COVID-19) "Infodemic" and Emerging Issues through a Data Lens: The Case of China [Int J Enviro Res Pub Health Vol 17 No 7, Mar 2020]
Emergence of knowledge communities and information centralization during the COVID-19 pandemic [Soc Sci Med Sep 2021]
Framework for Managing the COVID-19 Infodemic: Methods and Results of an Online, Crowdsourced WHO Technical Consultation [JMIR JMIR Vol. 22 No 6, June 2020]
From "Infodemics" to Health Promotion: A Novel Framework for the Role of Social Media in Public Health
The health belief model: How public health can address the misinformation crisis beyond COVID-19 [Public Health Pract (Oxf) Nov 2021]
How to Fight an Infodemic: The Four Pillars of Infodemic Management [JMIR Vol. 22 No 6, June 2020]
Temporal and Location Variations, and Link Categories for the Dissemination of COVID-19-Related Information on Twitter During the SARS-CoV-2 Outbreak in Europe: Infoveillance Study [JMIR Vol 22 No 8, Aug 2020]

Pan American Health Organization. Understanding the Infodemic and Misinformation in the fight against COVID-19

PUBLIC HEALTH UNITS

Scams and Misinformation [Ottawa PH]