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HealthGuard, a service of NewsGuard, helps patients, healthcare workers, and anyone involved in the medical field identify trustworthy sources of health information — and avoid dangerous misinformation. With ratings for more than 3,000 health information sources and a catalogue of false health narratives — from bogus cancer cures to COVID vaccine myths — HealthGuard provides a solution to the “infodemic” of rampant online health misinformation.
HealthGuard’s browser extension and other educational resources help individuals build health literacy skills.
Throughout the pandemic, NewsGuard has provided the WHO with reports highlighting the top COVID and vaccine myths circulating across the major social platforms, the sources responsible for advancing those claims, and the groups on which those claims thrive. These reports are based on NewsGuard’s health-focused Misinformation Fingerprints data and its Reliability Ratings of health misinformation websites.
