Mechanisms of Covid-19 presented in public media

The goal of this project is to characterize how biological mechanisms are presented in the public media and how laypeople understand and evaluate such information. The pandemic, and the vast amount of scientific and medical information associated with it, opened up an opportunity to study how information about biological mechanisms that is relevant to the everyday lives of all citizens is presented and perceived by laypeople. Better understanding of how relevant everyday-health related mechanistic information is processed and used by laypeople may lay the ground for understanding how to provide teachers, students, laypeople and scientists tools for using and producing such information, an important step in bridging the gap between science and society.