{"id":6836,"date":"2020-05-14T17:16:49","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T00:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6836"},"modified":"2021-03-17T17:17:40","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T00:17:40","slug":"youtube-as-a-source-of-medical-information-on-the-novel-coronavirus-2019-disease-covid-19-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/14\/youtube-as-a-source-of-medical-information-on-the-novel-coronavirus-2019-disease-covid-19-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube as a Source of Medical Information on the Novel Coronavirus 2019 Disease (COVID-19) Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">D\u2019Souza et al. reviewed the medical content of the 113 most-widely viewed YouTube videos on COVID-19. They found 70% of videos were useful and 9% were misleading.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Of the videos classified as useful, 72% were posted by news\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">agencies<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and 22% were posted by individuals<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. O<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">f the misleading video<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">s<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, 60% were posted by individuals and 40% were posted by news agencies<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. Useful videos were more likely to present information on prevalence, medical outcomes or prognosis.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The World Health Organization contributed one useful\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">video<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">no<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ne of the<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">videos\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">were posted by\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the Center for Disease Control. These findings highlight the need for increased information\u00a0disseminate\u00a0from reputable sources on YouTube and other social media platforms.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">D\u2019Souza et al. (May 12, 2020). YouTube as a Source of Medical Information on the Novel Coronavirus 2019 Disease (COVID-19) Pandemic. Global Public Health.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/17441692.2020.1761426\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/17441692.2020.1761426<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>D\u2019Souza et al. reviewed the medical content of the 113 most-widely viewed YouTube videos on COVID-19. They found 70% of videos were useful and 9% were misleading.\u00a0Of the videos classified as useful, 72% were posted by news\u00a0agencies\u00a0and 22% were posted by individuals. Of the misleading videos, 60% were posted by individuals and 40% were posted&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/14\/youtube-as-a-source-of-medical-information-on-the-novel-coronavirus-2019-disease-covid-19-pandemic\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[22],"class_list":["post-6836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-non-pharmaceutical-interventions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6837,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6836\/revisions\/6837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6836"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}