The estimates are conservative because they don’t capture all the \u0027flow\u002Don consequences\u0027 of misinformation, such as postponed surgeries, authors say
Reluctant people reported lower trust in government, preferred to avoid vaccines in general and questioned how quickly COVID-19 vaccines were produced and approved.
The report doesn’t contain recommendations. The CCA’s reports don’t, by design. The goal is to inform policy, not to direct government, a spokesperson said. But scientific research is also fallible, the panel report notes. “Misinformation can be the product of systemic failures in science and medicine, and in the communication of scientific knowledge and research findings,” it reads. Finding that don’t replicate and weak methodologies are among the reasons why “no one study can be treated as definitive.”
The panel is committed to the freedom of expression, Himelfarb said. But things can be done to combat misinformation, he said. “It’s pretty clear that tens of thousands of hospitalizations did occur because of misinformation,” he said.
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