When fear and misinformation go viral: Pharmacists' role in deterring medication misinformation during the 'infodemic' surrounding COVID-19
When fear and misinformation go viral: Pharmacists' role in deterring medication misinformation during the 'infodemic' surrounding COVID-19
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DOI：
10.1016/j.sapharm.2020.04.032
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发表时间：
2021-01-01
影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
Tesfaye, Wubshet H.
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作者：
Erku, Daniel A.;Belachew, Sewunet A.;Tesfaye, Wubshet H.
新型冠状病毒（COVID-19）爆发成为大流行，全球面临前所未有的挑战。数百万人感染了该病毒，其中许多人丧生，给地球仪造成巨大的社会和经济冲击。在大流行病日益加重的负担中，有一些平行的紧急情况需要同时应对：围绕COVID-19的假药、假新闻和药物错误信息的扩散。药剂师是关键的卫生专业人员，拥有必要的技能和培训，有助于应对这些紧急情况。首先，它们可以成为公众或其他卫生专业人员准确可靠信息的相关来源，从而减少COVID-19药物错误信息的传播。这可以通过根据相关卫生当局和专业协会的建议提供准确可靠的信息来实现，以确保社区了解信息的重要性，从而将大流行的有害后果降至最低。本评论旨在总结现有文献，其中涉及目前正在试验的有希望的治疗方法，伪造药物和药物相关信息的危险以及药剂师在应对这些并行的全球紧急情况中发挥主导作用的作用。
The world has faced an unprecedented challenge when coronavirus (COVID-19) emerged as a pandemic. Millions of people have contracted the virus and a significant number of them lost their lives, resulting in a tremendous social and economic shock across the globe. Amid the growing burden of the pandemic, there are parallel emergencies that need to be simultaneously tackled: the proliferation of fake medicines, fake news and medication misinformation surrounding COVID-19. Pharmacists are key health professionals with the required skills and training to contribute to the fight against these emergencies. Primarily, they can be a relevant source of accurate and reliable information to the public or other fellow health professionals thereby reducing the spread of COVID-19 medication misinformation. This can be achieved by providing accurate and reliable information based on recommendations given by relevant health authorities and professional associations to make sure the community understand the importance of the message and thus minimise the detrimental consequences of the pandemic. This commentary aims to summarise the existing literature in relation to the promising treatments currently under trial, the perils of falsified medications and medicine-related information and the role of pharmacists in taking a leading role in combating these parallel global emergencies.