'Infodemic' risks jeopardising COVID-19 vaccines: WHO

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As early as February, with the global pandemic spreading fast, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued a warning about an 'infodemic', a wave ...

The WHO defined an infodemic as an overabundance of information, both online and offline, including"deliberate attempts to disseminate wrong information".

"Without the appropriate trust and correct information, diagnostic tests go unused, immunisation campaigns - or campaigns to promote effective vaccines - will not meet their targets and the virus will continue to thrive," the WHO said. "We are very concerned about that and concerned that people get their info from credible sources, that they are aware that there is a lot information out there that is wrong, either intentionally wrong or unintentionally wrong," she told AFP.

And vaccination programmes, those groups say, are a shield for implanting microscopic chips in people to monitor them. In 15 countries, 73 per cent of people said they were willing to be vaccinated against COVID-19, four percentage points lower than in an earlier poll in August.

 

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