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JMIR Theme Issue: COVID-19 Special Issue (4233) Quality/Credibility of eHealth Information and Trust Issues (926) Mass Media/Social Media Communication and Campaigns (786) Infoveillance, Infodemiology, Digital Disease Surveillance, Infodemic Management (1388) Information Seeking, Information Needs (645) Misinformation and Disinformation Outbreaks and Information Prevalence Studies (155)

Published on in Vol 26 (2024)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/51910, first published .
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Understanding the Impact of Communicating Uncertainty About COVID-19 in the News: Randomized Between-Subjects Factorial Experiment

Understanding the Impact of Communicating Uncertainty About COVID-19 in the News: Randomized Between-Subjects Factorial Experiment

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Rui Zhao1 Author Orcid Image ;   Xuerong Lu2 Author Orcid Image ;   Jiayi Yang3 Author Orcid Image ;   Biao Li4 Author Orcid Image
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