What do the aftermath of the 2010 Haiti earthquake, Hurricane Sandy, the Boston Marathon bombings, the 2013 Ebola outbreak and the COVID-19 pandemic, have in common?

Undoubtably, as the SARS-CoV-2 virus, responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, spread across the world, information shared on social media “spread” with it. This “infodemic”, overabundance of information, commonly occurs during an epidemic and spreads between humans via various information systems1.
Source: Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology, and Endodontics - Category: ENT & OMF Authors: Source Type: research