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The relationship between fake news and fake medicines: how misinformation has fuelled the sale of COVID-19 substandard and falsified medical products
Full text linkAs waves of COVID-19 continue to threaten public health, an increasing volume of disease-related information is widely accessible, and not all of it is accurate or reliable. The World Health Organisation (WHO) described this overabundance of information, misinformation, and disinformation as an "infodemic", making it difficult for many to distinguish fact from fiction. These definitions are complex and transitional; however, misinformation is defined as the "inadvertent sharing of false information", whereas disinformation is more sinister in origin and constitutes "the deliberate creation and sharing of information known to be false." The infodemic encapsulates both intentional and unintentional erroneous sources. Ultimately, the patient safety consequences remain the same, including amplifying vaccine hesitancy and propagating dangerous "coronavirus cures" myths, leading to higher COVID related mortality rates.
Disinformation, desperation, and panic drive the production and sale of falsified medical products. The WHO estimates 1 in 10 medical products in low-and-middle-income countries (LMIC) settings are substandard or falsified (SF), which may worsen diseases, cause disability or even death. Ultimately, SF products undermine public trust in COVID-19 vaccines and treatments, all sectors must come together in this crisis to ensure quality covid medical products are distributed safely and fairly to end the pandemic sooner rather than later.  
Open Science and information literacy: case study at a research center
Full text linkThe APPsyCI, a Portuguese research center, decided to incorporate, in all its areas of activity, a research line within Open Science articulated with information literacy (IL). The Open Science assumptions were implemented through several actions: repository management, teacher and researcher training, support for choosing the journals where to publish, dissemination, and promotion of scientific knowledge within FAIR principles. The social and academic impact of the research line provides some light on the national landscape for research innovation and broadens horizons and sheds when combining IL with Open Science. Thus, the creation of this research line within the research center shows that the association of Open Science with IL can be considered as the path and object of applied research
TREC-COVID: Building a Pandemic Retrieval Test Collection
Full text linkAssessing how good is a search engine has been an active area of development for more than three decades. During the COVID-19 pandemic however the rate of change in what people are interested in, and the availableinformation online has introduced further challenges for search. TREC-COVID introduces a benchmark collectionto evaluate search engines and provide the means to improve them under the special circumstances of a pandemic
Printing in a pandemic: the makers response to COVID-19
Full text linkuCreate Studio is the University of Edinburgh’s Community Makerspace. The uCreate Studio team worked throughout the COVID-19 lockdown, collaborating with other local teams to produce personal protective equipment (PPE) for staff in the National Health Service locally. This paper describes the work of the uCreate Studio team and how they used their skills, knowledge, network of contacts, and the specialist equipment in the uCreate Studio in the production of PPE
