Dr. Saskia Popescu tweets about the struggle about correcting misinformation online
"Just sharing-when infectious disease/pubhealth folks correct sensationalist misinfo online, we’re doing it in addition to our jobs, which are currently exhausting. We’re doing it knowing we’ll get flack for it. We’re doing it bc it erodes trust in PH, which is dangerous right now"
-@SaskiaPopescu
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