Opinion: I’m fighting misinformation online. False hantavirus claims follow a now-familiar playbook

I learned about hantavirus misinformation this week in the same way I now learn about most public health misinformation: My followers sent it to me.

Within hours of the first headlines about a hantavirus outbreak linked to the expedition cruise ship MV Hondius, my DMs started filling with screenshots. One was from the account of a Texas doctor who became well known during Covid for promoting ivermectin. She was already telling followers that ivermectin would work against hantavirus, too.

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