科学家要求在19个“流行病”中清醒

作者：克里斯平·马斯卢格（Crispin Maslog）

As fake news on COVID-19 spreads faster than the virus, scientists call for a halt to the ‘infodemic’.

正如中国承认新颖的冠状病毒（Covid-19）现在是该国自成立以来所面临的最严重的公共卫生危机时，一群科学家对媒体对这种流行病的报道提出了刺耳的呼吁。

科学家statement2月19日在世界领先的科学期刊之一中出版，Lancet，呼吁为科学家，公共卫生专业人员和医疗专业人员提供支持。

“我们是公众健康scientists who have closely followed the emergence of 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and are deeply concerned about its impact on global health and wellbeing. We have watched as the scientists, public health professionals, and medical professionals of China, in particular, have worked diligently and effectively to rapidly identify the pathogen behind this outbreak, put in place significant measures to reduce its impact, and share their results transparently with the global health community. This effort has been remarkable,” the scientists said in a formal statement which they asked the public to endorse and sign. (1)

与“弱流”作斗争

这种上诉不能更及时。它是在冠状病毒“流行病”使冠状病毒流行本身掩盖的时候。前几天我的驾驶员问我，我开始担心中国的政府官员们正在杀死那些厌倦了那里的电晕病毒的人，只是为了摆脱病毒。

“在可预见的将来，我们可能必须在两个方面与冠状病毒作斗争 - 病毒流行和信息流行前沿”

克里斯平·马斯拉格（Crispin Maslog）

我继续询问他获取信息的地方并责骂他，说这是假新闻。But what really got me worried was when no less than a Senator of the Philippines played back in a public hearing in February in the halls of Philippine Congress a conspiracy theory video that claimed the coronavirus to be a form of ‘bio-warfare’ developed by the US against China.

Vicente Sotto, whose claim to fame before he was elected senator was as a broadcast personality, alleged his office had received the video anonymously and found it was "somehow very interesting, if not revealing". The theory has been debunked by experts.

What happened next was just as interesting. Instead of first asking the opinion of the health experts present, Senator Sotto turned to foreign secretary Teodoro Locsin for his comments. Locsin, a veteran journalist and publisher, immediately rejected the theory as the “craziest video”.

但是，索托参议员没有立即要求提出意见，这也是疯狂的卫生官员出席参议院听证会，特别是卫生部长弗朗西斯科·杜克三世或WHOcountry representative Rabindra Abeyasinghe. It seems that Senator Sotto was looking for sensational angles rather than scientific opinions and who better to ask than a journalist?

This is a tendency to which most of us in the public are now inclined as we read and talk about the origins, nature and spread of COVID-19.

As of 28 February, barely two months after the confirmation of the first case of corona virus (31 December 2019), in Wuhan, China, there were at least 78,824 confirmed cases in中国大陆，使世界总数超过84,000，死亡人数为2,870。2月最后一周的重大暴发现在也在伊朗，意大利和韩国发展，数百例已确认的案件和多次死亡。

重新发表SARS和MERSCOV

这种始于中国开始的卷vid 19流行病现在有可能成为全球大流行病，这在我们的一生中想到了两个流行病 -SARS和梅斯科夫。

严重的急性呼吸综合症（SARS）是一种病毒呼吸道疾病，在2003年11月首次出现在中国南部，于2003年3月被认为是全球威胁。

它于2月25日到达新加坡，我有几个月来应对公共歇斯底里的个人经验，直到新加坡高品质医疗的系统三个月后的5月，负责任的媒体舔了病毒。2003年3月至5月期间，新加坡总共报告了238例SARS病例，其中33例死亡。第一个案件是2月25日，最后一个案件是5月5日。

尽管我远离我的家人是新加坡的客座教授，但我克服了最初的烦恼，后来感到足够安全，可以去市场，乘公共汽车去我的办公室，偶尔在市中心进行锻炼。但是，它确实限制了我的社交生活。

要记住的至关重要的事情是在对抗虚假信息时得到了解，收集和积极进取。

Pandemic in digital age

是什么让从非典和MERSCO COVID 19个不同V, however, is not only its initial size but the milieu into which it was born. COVID 19 is now at a stage when it is likely going to be declared a pandemic and described with many others — thanks to social media.

When SARS AND MERSCOV were infecting people, the younger generation were only beginning to surf the Internet and use the original cell phone. Social media was still an infant.

But now, a WHO official warns that false news was "spreading faster than the virus". Claims are made that the virus is spread by eating bat soup or could be cured by garlic. A WHO official has met officials of tech companies at Facebook's headquarters in Mountain View, California, including those from Google, Apple, Airbnb, Lyft, Uber and Sales force. Earlier he held talks with Amazon at the e-commerce giant's headquarters in Seattle.

由于冠状病毒爆发被标记为公共卫生紧急情况，因此diseasehave popped up on the e-retailer. And when users search for the word coronavirus on Amazon, listings for face masks and vitamin C pop up. Vitamin C has been listed as one of the fake cures for coronavirus.

作为回应，Facebook于2月27日（2月27日）宣布，它禁止广告“在Covid 19中产生紧迫感”或建议治疗或预防措施”，并“将删除包含有关该病毒的虚假信息的帖子”。

最有可能意外的，但是在可预见的将来，我们可能必须在两个方面与冠状病毒（病毒流行病和信息流行阵线）作斗争。

我们必须成为新闻的被动接收者，而是必须变得批评，并重新掌握所有听起来“疯狂”和“阴谋”的信息。受过教育的班级应该领导这样做。学校应该参与并介绍课程媒体 信息素养，首先要确定假新闻，尤其是在科学和健康方面。

这对医学科学家和传播科学家来说都是一个巨大的挑战。愿两组科学家获胜。

Crispin C. Maslog, former journalist with Agence France-Presse, is an environmental activist and former science journalism professor, Silliman University and University of the Philippines Los Baños, Philippines. He is a founding member and now Chair of the Board, Asian Media Information and Communication Centre, Manila.

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