Nat Gyenes

Special Issue on COVID-19 & Misinfodemics, Guest-Editors Editorial.

By Meghan McGinty

Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington, USA

Nat Gyenes

Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University, USA

PHOTO by Brian McGowan, UNSPLASH.COM

On 7 January 2020, Chinese authorities identified a new type of coronavirus, which was subsequently named severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) 1https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/situation-reports/20200121-sitrep-1-2019-ncov.pdf?sfvrsn=20a99c10_4