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[New York Times] Gabriel Leung: Urgent questions scientists are asking about coronavirus
Gabriel Leung, 10 February, 2020
- “As we determine research priorities at the World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva this week, the hope is that the science being urgently coordinated will also fight the crisis on other fronts. It could help battle the emerging ‘infodemic’, the cacophony of real news, fake news and pseudoscience that feeds uncertainty and breeds panic,” writes Professor Gabriel Leung, Dean of HKUMed at The University of Hong Kong, in an OpeEd for NYT.
- “It could help roll back some measures seemingly fueled by populism and nativism. The travel advisories, outright travel bans, immigration controls and xenophobic treatment of people from different places are doing significant harm,” he writes.
