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Los Angeles emergency room nurse Sandra Younan spent the last year juggling long hours as she watched many patients struggle with the coronavirus and some die.

Journalists, public health officials and tech companies have tried to push back against the falsehoods, but much of the job of correcting misinformation has fallen to the world’s front-line medical workers.

Nurses fight conspiracy theories along with coronavirus ALI SWENSON and DAVID KLEPPER, Associated Press March 13, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 11 1of11Emergency room nurse L'Erin Ogle stands at dawn before starting her 12-hour shift at a nearby hospital Tuesday, March 9, 2021, in Overland Park, Kan. After a year of working long hours taking care of COVID-19 patients, Ogle feels obligated to speak out when she sees misinformation related to the pandemic in her community.Charlie Riedel/APShow MoreShow Less 2of11Brenda Olmos, a nurse practitioner who focuses on the geriatric population...

Bogus claims about the virus, masks and vaccines have exploded since COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic a year ago. Journalists, public health officials and tech companies have tried to push back against the falsehoods, but much of the job of correcting misinformation has fallen to the world’s front-line medical workers.