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<p>Misinformation about COVID-19 and vaccines appears to have gotten worse and is keeping people from getting the shots, driving an increase in cases.</p><div class="g4HBbPsM" style="clear:both;float:left;width:100%;margin:0 0 20px 0;"><script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>

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<p>Medical personnel in Nigeria have complained that COVID misinformation has constituted a major threat to all the efforts been made to stamp out the disease.</p>
<p>An official of Kano State ministry of health said that “even health care givers share in the underlying misinformation about COVID-19, and I must tell you that if government did not make the taking of vaccine mandatory, a lot of health officials will not take it, I am sure.” Misinformation has become a growing problem in the outbreak, fueling vaccine hesitancy among a wary public, health officials have complained.</p><div class="7ohZpnL8" style="clear:both;float:left;width:100%;margin:0 0 20px 0;"><script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>

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<p>In Kano State, “a lot of our people still believe Covid is a mirage. They say even if it exists, it is not as potent as it is being made to appear,” he said, adding that misinformation is not a Kano of Nigerian issue but rather “a global phenomenon.</p>
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<p>Maria Van Kerkhove said during a Q&;A livestreamed on the WHO’s social media channels that “In the last four weeks or so, the amount of misinformation that is out there seems to be getting worse, and I think that’s really confusing for the general public,”.</p>
<p>Misinformation has become another risk factor that is “really allowing the virus to thrive,” she said.</p>
<p><a href="https://journals.lww.com/jphmp/fulltext/2017/01000/public_health_leadership_and_management_in_the_era.13.aspx">Public health leaders</a> have blamed conspiracy theories and misinformation for growing distrust of the vaccines around the world — so much so that in July, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, declared Covid misinformation a “serious public threat.”</p>
<p>According to a Kaiser Family Foundation survey conducted July 15-27, most unvaccinated Americans think the Covid vaccines are more of a threat to their health than contracting the virus itself.</p>
<p>Part of the misinformation going round about the vaccine are that it causes infertility, contains microchips and causes Covid-19, said Yusuf Sani Jogana, an administrative officer in a state hospital in Kano.</p>
<p>Nigerian Sketch also found that misinformation about alternative treatments for Covid-19 are prevalent among the populace.</p>
<p>For instance, a local herbs seller claims that a certain shrub called ‘<em>Tazargade’</em> is effective against the disease and can completely cure it.</p>
<p><em>Tazargade</em> has received so much attention that authorities are already beginning to consider carrying out a research about its efficacy.</p>
<p>Other more dangerous claims are that bathing with hot water, drinking hot water with lemon juice and chewing bitter kola can either prevent contracting COVID-19 or cure it when it is detected.</p>
<p>But medical experts have insisted that the best way to cut down the time frame to getting to the end of this pandemic is through mass vaccination.</p>
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