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Containing spread of Covid-19 conspiracy theories in a forensic psych hospital
- DanBC 6y agoI never know how to edit down long titles to fit the 80 character limit. The full title is "The contagiousness of memes: containing the spread of COVID-19 conspiracy theories in a forensic psychiatric hospital" This report comes from an English "Medium Secure Unit". These are a special type of mental health hospital that deal with people who are detained under the mental health act, and who have complex risk behaviours. Some, but not all, patients will have some criminal justice system involvement in their care. So, for example, they may have been in prison and then become mentally ill. Or they may have been mentally ill when they committed their offence and been sent by the courts to hospital. But some of the patients in a medium secure unit will not have any criminal justice system involvement in their treatment.
- throwawaybutwhy 6y agoTL;DR - Instead of countering a COVID outbreak (24 confirmed cases out of 90 patients is an 'institution down' type of scenario) a doctor and a trainee studied meme proliferation. Note this was in the spring.