Characterization of mechanistic information about CoronaVirus in the public media and its effect on laypeople understanding

Leading team
Dr. Michal Haskel-Ittah
Summary
This project aims to characterize how biological mechanisms are presented in the public media and how laypeople understand and evaluate such information. The project is focused around mechanisms related to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The pandemic, and the vast amount of scientific and medical information associated with it, opened up an opportunity to study how information about biological …