During pandemic, proponents of 'doing your own research' believed more COVID misinformation

As the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic first began to spread around the planet, it brought along a new vocabulary. Unfamiliar phrases like "flatten the curve," "COVID pod" and "essential worker" infected regular conversation. But another—"do your own research"— was already well-known to Sedona Chinn, who studies misinformation and health communications.