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n March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization announced that the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a pandemic crisis. Besides the disease itself, the fear from COVID-19 has a high psychological burden (eg, psychological distress, anxiety, and depression) on patients and their families, medical staff, health care workers, and the general population. 1 These days, we are faced with a lot of information regarding COVID-19 from different sources. However, fake information, gossip, and rumors seem to be more common than factual information about this disease.
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