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Vaccine Confidence in the Time of COVID-19

This webinar is the second in an online course series on media monitoring that the VCP developed as part of its work to monitor and address concerns and rumours circulating around the GCRF Vaccine R&D networks.

The pandemic of social media panic travels faster than the COVID-19 outbreak

Within weeks of the emergence of the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in China, misleading rumours and conspiracy theories about the origin circulated the globe paired with fearmongering, racism and mass purchase of face masks, all closely linked to the new ‘infomedia’ ecosystems of the 21st century marked by social media.