“Impact of Covid on Mental

Economy”

The disease caused by the new coronavirus that was first detected in
Wuhan, China, has been named coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-
19).

The social isolation measures Nearly 1 billion people live with a

of COVID-19 have had a mental disorder, 3 million people die
profound impact on the each year from harmful alcohol use,
psychological and mental well- and one person commits suicide
being of individuals throughout every 40 seconds. And now, billions
society. of people around the world have
been affected by the COVID-19
pandemic

Limited access to quality and affordable mental health care in the world prior to the
pandemic, and particularly in humanitarian and conflict emergencies, has been further

Leveraging Insights From Psychology: Disinformation has become an industry and

Inoculating Against COVID-19 Misinformation may cause more deaths than COVID-19.

Prevention is better than cure. Although the Bad
News game is a useful tool
little attention has been paid to insights from the
social and behavioral sciences to combat
misinformation about COVID-19, despite the
ample availability of research to draw from Van
Bavel et al. (2020). One insight that has emerged
is that fact-checks tend to spread slower on social
media than misinformation (Vosoughi et al., 2018),
making it difficult for fact-checking to be effective
on its own
In this situation, digital information technologies
have assumed a leading role during the current
pandemic.
Disinformation has become an industry that
exploits people's fears and anger for political and
economic gain.
For example, in 2021, disinformation or fake news
was associated precisely with the last electoral
process in which more than 20 thousand elected
positions were renewed, including the renewal of
the Chamber of Deputies.