COVID-19: The First Posttruth Pandemic

Parmet, Wendy E.; Paul, Jeremy R.

doi:10.2105/ajph.2020.305721

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“…The current findings corroborate these concerns by demonstrating an approximate 9-point increase in necessary efficacy to promote vaccination under an expedited process. Such findings do not diminish possible benefits of an expedited process, but instead indicate that vaccination campaigns will likely require solutions targeting cognitive biases to effectively address false beliefs and skepticism about the rigor of vaccine development (4,31). Evaluation of individual differences in vaccination intentions also highlights key factors and targets for public health efforts to promote vaccination, like choice strategies bundling flu and COVID-19 vaccines to facilitate vaccination rates among vaccine seekers or targeted campaigns addressing conspiracy beliefs.…”

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confidence: 98%

“…If the methodology demonstrates sensitivity to scenarios designed to emulated public perceptions, then this behavioral economic methodology could be used to inform future public health vaccination campaigns designed to influence public perceptions and improve public acceptance of the vaccine. This study specifically demonstrates how these methods can model the impact of key public perceptions, such as skepticism about the rigor of the vaccine development processes (3,4,19)on intended COVID-19 vaccination to inform potential public health campaigns targeting vaccine coverage.…”

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confidence: 98%

“…When compared to influenza vaccination coverage, these required rates are high; for example, the 2018–19 adult influenza vaccination coverage was 45.3% ( 2 ). Achieving critical COVID-19 coverage will likely require a persuasive, evidence-based public health education campaign targeting misinformation and misperceptions about vaccines, generally, and a rapidly developed COVID-19 vaccine, in particular ( 3 , 4 ).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Quantifying the Impact of Public Perceptions on Vaccine Acceptance Using Behavioral Economics

Hursh

Strickland

Schwartz

et al. 2020

Front. Public Health

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This study was conducted to evaluate the impact of public perceptions of vaccine safety and efficacy on intent to seek COVID-19 vaccination using hypothetical vaccine acceptance scenarios. The behavioral economic methodology could be used to inform future public health vaccination campaigns designed to influence public perceptions and improve public acceptance of the vaccine. In June 2020, 534 respondents completed online validated behavioral economic procedures adapted to evaluate COVID-19 vaccine demand in relation to a hypothetical development process and efficacy. An exponential demand function was used to describe the proportion of participants accepting the vaccine at each efficacy. Linear mixed effect models evaluated development process and individual characteristic effects on minimum required vaccine efficacy required for vaccine acceptance. The rapid development process scenario increased the rate of decline in acceptance with reductions in efficacy. At 50% efficacy, 68.8% of respondents would seek the standard vaccine, and 58.8% would seek the rapid developed vaccine. Rapid vaccine development increased the minimum required efficacy for vaccine acceptance by over 9 percentage points, γ = 9.36, p < 0.001. Past-3-year flu vaccination, γ = −23.00, p < 0.001, and male respondents, γ = −4.98, p = 0.037, accepted lower efficacy. Respondents reporting greater conspiracy beliefs, γ = 0.39, p < 0.001, and political conservatism, γ = 0.32, p < 0.001, required higher efficacy. Male, γ = −4.43, p = 0.013, and more conservative, γ = −0.09, p = 0.039, respondents showed smaller changes in minimum required efficacy by development process. Information on the vaccine development process, vaccine efficacy, and individual differences impact the proportion of respondents reporting COVID-19 vaccination intentions. Behavioral economics provides an empirical method to estimate vaccine demand to target subpopulations resistant to vaccination.

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confidence: 99%

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Quantifying the Impact of Public Perceptions on Vaccine Acceptance Using Behavioral Economics

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Strickland

Schwartz

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“…At the beginning, it was not easy to make decisions concerning the safety of students and the academic staff since the general situation was very unclear owing to the spread of inaccurate and deceptive information (Parmet & Paul, 2020;Qi, Du, Liu, Zhao, & Dong, 2020).…”

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Managing Education During the Coronavirus Emergency: The Case of a Polish Higher Education Institution

Marzano

Zając

2020

EID

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Due to the threat posed by COVID-19, most higher education institutions in Europe have opted to switch to online remote courses and smart working with a view to keeping their students and university staff safe during the current pandemic emergency.Face-to-face classes, including labs and workshops, have been canceled and substituted with online activities wherever possible, and new administrative procedures have even been established to support these radical changes.This article will analyze these changes in the light of a case study research conducted at the University of Social Sciences in Poland.The primary objective was to conduct an exploratory examination of the learning management issues that have emerged from the forced distance learning activities adopted to minimize the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.The secondary objective was to gather testimonies regarding the impact that the imposition of smart working has had on the university staff.From the research activity, some significant elements emerged that have stimulated a deeper reflection on the use of digital technology in higher education.

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“…I strongly believe health sciences and hospital libraries can serve a similar role by providing consumer health information resources on their home pages and promoting them to nearby public libraries as well as the numerous clinical educators and patient-family advocacy groups in our institutions. Studies continually show that opinions and research from scientists and health care providers are highly valued and trustworthy [17,18]. We have the ability to broadly inform the citizenry, while helping to protect the reputation of the scientific and biomedical research domain and ensure the knowledge gained helps humanity, just as it did during past epidemics.…”

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The library’s role in countering infodemics

Walker

2021

jmla

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Internet and communication technologies enable the creation of tremendous amounts of textual, graphic, and pictorial information. User-generated content published through personal web pages, blogs, and social media platforms has not only increased the amount of information available, but also expanded its reach. However, this ubiquity of information and empowerment of its creators leads to potentially controversial, futile, and inaccurate content circulating throughout the world. In the case of the COVID-19 pandemic, this can create false hope, fear, anxiety, harm, and confusion amongst information stakeholders. The World Health Organization recently applied the term “infodemic” to the COVID-19 pandemic. This commentary briefly discusses the current infodemic, its potential consequences, and the role of libraries—specifically health sciences, biomedical, and medical libraries—to help counter the COVID-19 infodemic. The discussion also has relevance for infodemics relating to other health and non-health affairs.

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COVID-19: The First Posttruth Pandemic

Cited by 54 publications

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Quantifying the Impact of Public Perceptions on Vaccine Acceptance Using Behavioral Economics

Quantifying the Impact of Public Perceptions on Vaccine Acceptance Using Behavioral Economics

Managing Education During the Coronavirus Emergency: The Case of a Polish Higher Education Institution

The library’s role in countering infodemics

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