WITH the increase of concern, and fears that are accompanying the spread of the coronavirus 2019-nCoV , to grow, psychosis, and fake news, which find fertile ground on social media, on the web and in the bonds of telephone messages: from the possibility of infecting animals, the care, the way to protect yourself. Down then in the field the maximum health care institutions national and international, against what is likely to be another the epidemic of fake news and theories complottistiche.
The Higher Institute for Health (Iss) has published a tweet in which it recommends “not to give credit to non-official sources, like voice messages on social media and messaging app,” and the president, Silvio Brusaferro, had to specify in a video that “the use of masks in a healthy person has particular utility”. While the World Health Organization (Who) has developed a handbook, re-launched on Twitter in which debunks the myths, travelling more rapidly than the virus.
