Why You Need to Take an Online COVID-19 Safety Course Today

There is so much information circulating about COVID-19 in the news and social networks today that it can make your head spin. You may feel confident that you know how to protect yourself and others from COVID-19 infection and transmission but are you sure? How do you sort out the facts from fiction in all of the noise, especially when the pandemic is still evolving?

COVID-19 Misinformation and Confusion in the News and Online
The amount of misinformation regarding COVID-19 is startling. Some of the claims are so outlandish that they are easy to identify and dismiss by most people. One such claim is that the COVID-19 pandemic is a conspiracy to microchip everyone! Other claims you may have seen, however, include just enough truth to create confusion and make them seem plausible.

For example, research has established that silver can be an effective antibacterial agent. Based on this fact, you may wonder if the “colloidal silver solutions” that some are selling online are effective against viruses? Maybe you ought to start taking one of those silver solutions as a precaution against COVID-19? Maybe you ought to suggest to your friends and family that they also take these solutions, too? However, colloidal silver solutions have not been validated for use as advertised and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued warning letters to companies selling those potions.

Avoiding Misinformation and Getting the Facts
What can increase our confusion and susceptibility to false claims is when misinformation is passed along through a group that we would normally trust. Perhaps you belong to a group of hobbyists and several members of your group share a colloidal silver solution product with you. Our natural mental biases like False Consensus and the Halo Effect may lead us to more quickly trust such information from our friends and associates. You could, of course, spend your time and energy drilling through the flood of online information to try and determine what effective steps you can take today. Fortunately, there is an easier solution.

Taking an online course about COVID-19 from the safety of your home is a simple way to help ensure that you have the latest, factual information. Rather than relying on questionable claims off of the internet, you can take courses that offer quality, confirmed content. Courses offered by the Healthcare Learning Alliance, for example, are designed around information from leading health research and information organizations, including,

  • the World Health Organization (WHO)
  • the Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
  • Johns Hopkins University
  • Oxford University

​What Individuals and Private Practices Need to Know
Using the best available information, the Healthcare Learning Alliance has created four courses that are available to you today. These courses cover a wide range of topics from the basics for individuals’ personal protection to guidance for private practice physicians.