NPR
As healthcare professionals grapple with soaring numbers of COVID-19 sickened people around the country, they're also combatting another quick-spreading and frustrating contagion: misinformation. "I don't know, I can't decide if it's a conspiracy theory or not," said shopper Shauna Unger, outside of the same grocery store. "I don't know what's really happening. It doesn't seem like it's as critical as everyone's making it out to be." … To try and address conspiracy theories and doubts in the community about the virus's threat, St. Luke's is using every tool at its disposal. Employees are speaking at public hearings. They're pushing out new numbers and information as soon as they get them. On social media, they've posted accounts from frontline workers about what it's like to deal with COVID-19 patients.