Becca Price publishes on teaching students how to recognize disinformation about Ivermectin

Understanding science has become all the more critical to our daily lives since the COVID-19 pandemic started, and students have urgent questions about what has been going on. In response to those questions, faculty member聽聽and colleagues Anzela Niraula and Vasudha Sundaravaradan, developed a lesson to teach students about misinformation around COVID treatments聽(Niraula et al. 2023). In聽鈥�,鈥澛�students explore how incorrect and intentionally misleading statements have endangered people. So many folks bought into this information, that they sought Ivermectin as a treatment for COVID.

This lesson teaches the basic biology of Ivermectin as a drug and how it is incompatible with COVID鈥攊t works on nervous systems, and so can鈥檛 work on viruses which don鈥檛 even have cells. In the lesson, students also look at a fraudulent report that made up a connection between Ivermectin and COVID.