Medics call for action on social media Covid-19 ‘infodemic’

By 2020-06-04Science & Tech
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Image caption Paramedic Thomas Knowles said he had to deal with misinformation multiple times each day

A paramedic has described how a patient with symptoms of a heart attack refused treatment after reading on Facebook that she would die if she went to hospital during the Covid-19 crisis.

The account was among hard-hitting testimony given by medics to MPs about the damage misinformation on social media is doing to frontline healthcare.

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