#ThingsYouCanDo to Stay (Reliably!) Informed About #COVID19

One of the biggest problems in the United States right now, even before the COVID-19 pandemic, was and is the sheer amount of misinformation floating around and the resulting confusion and, even worse, the flat-out denial of the seriousness of this virus and the attendant flouting of orders and other protective measures that are being put in place or recommended.

So how can we learn true facts about the virus and stay updated on what's going on? Well, I think it's important to listen to scientists and especially the ones who specialize in this stuff. I mean...science isn't perfect (it's always learning, after all), but its method is specifically designed to determine what is objectively true. And on the whole, scientists are not out to mislead people.

Fortunately, there's no shortage of science-based coronavirus information out there.

Here are the governmental and NGO sources I trust the most, with a link to each organization's COVID-19 home page:

• The World Health Organization
  
• The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  
• The Public Health Agency of Canada
  

And here are a couple of specialists I trust:

• Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's Cheif Medical Correspondent, has a new podcast, Coronavirus: Fact vs. Fiction. (If you want to listen from the very first episode, scroll to the bottom of that page and click "Show more episodes" until you see the one called "Introducing Coronavirus: Fact vs. Fiction.")
  
  
• Michael Olesen is a personal friend, a fantastic human, and an epidemiologist who works in disaster response preparedness. I trust him implicitly, and clearly, he is in a position to know whereof he speaks on this topic. He blogs at IP/EM/Safety.
  

Listen to the experts, friends. That's what they're there for.