An army of youth myth-busters: Curbing the viral threat to public health communications

Africa has the largest youth population globally, and locally, Stats SA's 2019 midyear estimates place youth at almost a third of the population .

Youth are just as susceptible to Covid-19 but are more likely to be asymptomatic which likely makes them the biggest carriers and transmitters of the virus to unsuspecting, more vulnerable people. Given that social media is a breeding ground for misinformation and fake news, and understanding the youth’s proclivity to find expression in the cyberspace, it is then appropriate to do our best to galvanise our young South Africans into an army of myth-busters and change agents. And to do it within the space they feel most comfortable, which also happens to be the so-called problematic space in this infodemic.

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