As the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic first began to spread around the planet, it brought along a new vocabulary. Unfamiliar phrases like “flatten the curve,” “COVID pod” and “essential worker” infected regular conversation. But another—”do your own research”— was already well-known to Sedona Chinn, who studies misinformation and health communications.
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Source: Phys.org