Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Apr 2020
Google searches for unproven COVID-19 cures spike by 1000 per cent after Trump, Musk endorsements
30 April 2020 - They’re unproven cures for COVID-19, but that hasn’t stopped a massive spike in attempts to buy these drugs.
Medical experts have now warned that the dangerous trend underlines the need for reliable health information to be amplified online during a health crisis.
Endorsements of potential drug treatments by entrepreneur Elon Musk and US President Donald Trump both inspired huge spikes in web searches for the medicines, according to the study published in the JAMA Internal Medicine journal, as did the first fatal poisoning by someone who took one of the medicines advertised without medical advice.
