N. Vigdor. Man Fatally Poisons Himself While Self-Medicating for Coronavirus, Doctor Says, 2020 (accessed March 24, 2020). URL https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/24/us/chloroquine-poisoning-coronavirus.html.

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1. The indirect and direct impacts, such as instances of 5G towers being burned down due to conspiracy theories linking them to Coronavirus (Parveen and Waterson, 2020)
2. The misinformation surrounding COVID-19 pandemic is especially damaging, since any mis-steps can pose a serious public health risk by leading to exponential spread of the disease and accidental death due to self-medication (Vigdor, 2020 ) 

Impacts of misinformation during the Pandemic

N. Parveen and J. Waterson. UK phone masts attacked amid 5G-coronavirus conspiracy theory, 2020 (accessed April 17, 2020). URL https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/apr/04/
uk-phone-masts-attacked-amid-5g-coronavirus-conspiracy-theory.

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