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April Joy Damian

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COVID-19

Promoting health literacy during the COVID-19 pandemic: A call to action for healthcare professionals

April Joy Damian and Joseph J. Gallo

The extraordinary spread of misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic is impressive. And, to public health professionals like us, it’s worrying: We know that good information and good health go hand in hand. Knowing what we do about the practice of public health and what the science tells us about how people fall for misinformation, we see promising strategies for intervention in our own field.

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