COVID-19

== Misinformation ==
{{Main|COVID-19 misinformation}}

After the initial outbreak of COVID{{nbhyph}}19, [[misinformation]] and [[disinformation]] regarding the origin, scale, prevention, treatment, and other aspects of the disease rapidly spread online.<ref name="bbc_misinfo">{{#invoke:cite news ||url=https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-51271037 |title=China coronavirus: Misinformation spreads online about origin and scale |date=30 January 2020 |work=[[BBC News]] |access-date=10 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200204163412/https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-51271037 |archive-date=4 February 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="GUAR">{{#invoke:cite news ||url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/31/bat-soup-dodgy-cures-and-diseasology-the-spread-of-coronavirus-bunkum |title=Bat soup, dodgy cures and 'diseasology': the spread of coronavirus misinformation |date=31 January 2020 |access-date=3 February 2020 | vauthors = Taylor J |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200202141231/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/31/bat-soup-dodgy-cures-and-diseasology-the-spread-of-coronavirus-bunkum |archive-date=2 February 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="RunningList">{{#invoke:Cite web||url=https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/janelytvynenko/coronavirus-disinformation-spread |title=Here's A Running List Of Disinformation Spreading About The Coronavirus |website=Buzzfeed News |access-date=8 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200206212717/https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/janelytvynenko/coronavirus-disinformation-spread |archive-date=6 February 2020 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

In September 2020, the US [[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]] (CDC) published preliminary estimates of the risk of death by age groups in the United States, but those estimates were widely misreported and misunderstood.<ref>{{#invoke:Cite web||date=11 February 2020|title=Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)|url=https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scenarios.html|access-date=10 October 2020|website=U.S. [[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]] (CDC)}}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:Cite web||date=8 October 2020|title=Misleading claim circulates online about infection fatality ratio of Covid-19 in the US|url=https://factcheck.afp.com/misleading-claim-circulates-online-about-infection-fatality-ratio-covid-19-us|access-date=10 October 2020|website=Fact Check}}</ref>