Fighting Pandemics on Two Fronts
June 20, 2019
When the next pandemic strikes, society will need to fight on two fronts: against the disease itself, and against the “deluge of rumors, misinformation and flat-out lies that will appear on the internet,” a Harvard researcher says in the New York Times. He cites a recent Issues article in which a technology entrepreneur called for the creation of a global volunteer corps of scientists and communicators to quickly provide accurate, clear, and credible information to the public to help mitigate possible broad social and economic ripple effects of a pandemic.