The Staggering Scope of the Global Coronavirus Misinformation Epidemic

Scientists identified more than 2,000 false claims about Covid-19 in circulation

Yasmin Tayag
Medium Coronavirus Blog
5 min readAug 10, 2020

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At the end of March, shortly after the coronavirus outbreak was declared a pandemic, the United Nations warned of another looming global threat. Humanity’s common enemy, said UN Secretary-General Antonio…

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Yasmin Tayag
Medium Coronavirus Blog

Editor, Medium Coronavirus Blog. Senior editor at Future Human by OneZero. Previously: science at Inverse, genetics at NYU.