Smith and coauthors analyze fifty papers published between January 2020 and February 2023 to determine evidence of efficacy in COVID-19 misinformation mitigation policies.
After categorizing interventions present in the papers examined into twelve types of interventions. Smith and colleagues determine that “there is no silver bullet for mitigating health misinformation.”
Instead, to better discern the effects of intervention designs, Smith and colleagues recommend that public health experts be included in intervention design and develop a health misinformation typology, among other recommendations.
Celebrating National American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month
During November, we're highlighting Indigenous voices and research on native populations.
In a 2021 Forefront article, Gabriel R. Sanchez and Raymond Foxworth summarize findings from a national survey on COVID vaccination, and identify how to integrate communication and outreach programs to increase vaccination rates in Native communities.
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