{"id":37731,"date":"2021-07-15T15:52:42","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T22:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=37731"},"modified":"2021-07-15T18:53:18","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T01:53:18","slug":"surgeon-general-issues-health-misinformation-advisory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=37731","title":{"rendered":"Surgeon general issues health misinformation advisory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Surgeon General\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/hmmmjlnrfvvzdldvzscffzmmfnzpvnvggwfrlhpvqbbqwm_lqjmjjgkgrmnkngqndkw.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/hmmmjlnrfvvzdldvzscffzmmfnzpvnvggwfrlhpvqbbqwm_lqjmjjgkgrmnkngqndkw.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1626481777579000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFugAzVo-RbRz9Z_25p2dbxnheCnw\">Vivek Murthy<\/a>\u00a0on Thursday issued an advisory calling health misinformation an \u201curgent threat\u201d amid the COVID-19 vaccination push.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cHealth misinformation is an urgent threat to public health,\u201d Murthy said in a statement. \u201cIt can cause confusion, sow distrust, and undermine public health efforts, including our ongoing work to end the COVID-19 pandemic.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/njrjgcwhkqqnbcbqntdkknjjkwnmqwqzzpkhcrmqyffypk_lqjmjjgkgrmnkngqndkw.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/njrjgcwhkqqnbcbqntdkknjjkwnmqwqzzpkhcrmqyffypk_lqjmjjgkgrmnkngqndkw.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1626481777579000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFKdIKwUvsDSIf_dqJyWxnXYiNXJA\">advisory<\/a>, the first issued by the surgeon general during the Biden administration, calls for a range of sectors to take action.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It calls on technology and social media companies to do more to fight misinformation on their platforms, including redesigning algorithms to avoid amplifying misinformation and strengthening the monitoring of it.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surgeon General\u00a0Vivek Murthy\u00a0on Thursday issued an&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37732,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37731\/revisions\/37732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}