Today it's a free-for-all on social media, which has become the main source of information for people on the COVID-19 pandemic, and sometimes a major source of information for even conventional media, so there is a huge opening for misinformation. Whereas the goal of scientific journals is to disseminate science in an unbiased manner with checks and balances built in through the peer-review process and post-publication responses from readers, the goal of information about science on social media may or may not be about science, but could be about casting science from a political, ideological, and/or financial perspective. The author believes he can play a modest role in helping to correct some of this misinformation. An earlier review article, that I co-authored addressing controls to minimize disruption of the pharmaceutical supply chain during the COVID-19 pandemic was published in 2020.1
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