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Hallberg's Picture of Health
Tom Crann and Dr. Jon Hallberg

COVID-19 brings disinformation war to health care

A woman wearing a face mask passes a Public Health England sign.
A woman wearing a face mask passes a Public Health England sign, warning passengers arriving on flights into the U.K., that coronavirus has been detected in Wuhan in China, at Terminal 4 of London Heathrow Airport in west London on Jan. 28, 2020.
Daniel Leal-Olivas | AFP via Getty Images file

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An editorial in the international journal The Lancet recently caught Dr. Jon Hallberg’s attention. It argues that the medical community needs to counter disinformation about COVID-19 to fight both panic and the virus.

“In 2001, when we had those anthrax-laden envelopes that were going around, and then in 2014 with Ebola in Africa, the more information people had, the better they were at responding to it,” said Hallberg, medical director of the University of Minnesota Physicians Mill City Clinic.

He talked more about the editorial and COVID-19 with MPR News host Tom Crann. Hear it with the audio player above.

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