Stay informed with live updates on the current COVID-19 outbreak and visit our coronavirus hub for more advice on prevention and treatment.On January 4, 2021, the JAMA Network published a viewpoint essay by three University of Pennsylvania emergency medicine experts — Raina M.
Merchant, Eugenia C. South, and Nicole Lurie — that describes the challenge and proposes some solutions.The authors assert that medical misinformation itself constitutes a distinct public health crisis.It has always been the case, state the authors, that delivery of medical information to the public has utilized the most popular media of its time.In the last decade, we have increasingly been receiving information online.