Fight against Media induced panic and hysteria - graver than the Fight against Covid 19

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I would start with a short imaginary story. Once a young boy of age 17 went to a doctor to get bleeding stopped and get some ointment after hurting his knee. He was in pain but not terribly. At doctor's clinic, he accidentally meets one of his aunts. The aunt begins shouting "OMG!! You are bleeding! You must be in a lot of pain! Get ointment and injection quickly. I am so worried about you! " The boy does gets injections and ointments but somehow he is in more pain now and remains worried for 2 days, until his wounds heals a lot. Now the fight against Covid in India is quite grim and the 2nd wave has had devastating effects. The whole medical system has been fighting and people and Government are under high stress. Yet a lot of media- news, print and social has been circulating so much of information- half baked and half or un-verified ones. Many people keep on glued to all such news. I know someone in relation who is getting over-stressed listening to various such depressing news from day to night on the news channels. That person is not Tech savy and somehow accepts all those news as true! This fight against misinformation and panic creating news is much more graver than fighting the actual virus and its effects.