An anti-lockdown protest at Queen s Park on April 25 attracted about 200 demonstrators.
A year into the COVID-19 pandemic, after 10 months of lockdowns, social distancing and other restrictions, people are exhausted and confused and looking for any information that tells them there’s a way out of this thing.
And that desperation leads a lot of people to fall for COVID-19 misinformation that’s running rampant online, which is why Nova Scotia Senator Stan Kutcher and the University of Alberta’s Timothy Caulfield created Science Up First.
A collective of concerned scientists, researchers, information experts, health-care providers, science communicators and organizations, Science Up First is here – on the web, on Facebook, on Twitter and on Instagram – to push back against the falsehoods by offering hard facts and reality-based information to anyone who’s willing to see it.
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This electron microscope image made available and colour-enhanced by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Integrated Research Facility in Fort Detrick, Md., in 2020, shows Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 virus particles, orange, isolated from a patient. A group of Canadian scientists and health experts has launched a new campaign to debunk misinformation about COVID-19. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-NIAID/National Institutes of Health via AP January 25, 2021 - 1:09 PM
EDMONTON - Microsoft founder Bill Gates did not create the virus that causes COVID-19 and he is not forcing microchips into your body through vaccinations.
Those pieces of misinformation are examples of what a group of Canadian scientists and health professionals is trying to discredit through a new campaign tackling inaccurate theories about the pandemic.