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FLORENCE, Italy, July 13, 2020 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

With the pandemic caused by COVID-19, the continuous need to obtain information

has pushed people to rely on unreliable sources, thus fomenting the spread of fake news.

For this reason Gilda D'Incerti, CEO and founder of PQE Group

[https://www.pqegroup.com/ ], quality service provider for Life Sciences,

decided last month to create a task force of employees to perform research on

one of the most discussed side effects of COVID-19: the Infodemic.

During one of the monthly video messages to the staff that D'Incerti sent

during the lockdown to the over 700 resources divided into the various

subsidiaries of the group, she asked to send personal applications to create a

team of researchers. The aim was to investigate, in a methodical and systematic

way, the most salient aspects of five main areas of information - such as

science, ecology, big data, social economy and legal - which in the last months

since the start of the pandemic have largely contributed to shape the public debate.

The team, consisting of 24 expert consultants from PQE Group

[https://www.pqegroup.com/ ], graduated in various disciplines ranging from

Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology to Social and Economic Sciences, is

working to provide information as much as possible via the corporate

communication channels scientifically correct and updated on these topics,

reporting the results obtained in a clear and simple manner.

In order to guarantee data security, two internationally renowned

pharmaceutical auditors have been selected to support the team: Claudio

Puglisi, Vice President of PQE Group and Executive Committee for external

relations of the Parental Drug Association (PDA) [https://www.pda-it.org/], and

Paolo Baroldi, who before becoming a consultant for PQE Group in the US served

as Vice President of Development and R&D Chairman at Chiesi Farmaceutici SPA.

One of the main benefit of this research is also the cultural diversity of the

task force, as the people chosen for this project are from the main countries

affected by COVID-19 such as Italy, Spain, Japan, India, USA, Mexico and

Brazil. In this way, in addition to deepening different points of view, the

various teams will have access to cross-cutting information, capable of making

the news more reliable.

Articles are available at this page

[https://www.pqegroup.com/infodemic-task-force/ ].

Moreover, video pills will be posted on the YouTube Channel

[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJemB2Zb8DLSyxicXErGHfQ ] of the company,

aiming to disseminate easy-to-understand scientific-cultural information.

"The idea of the Infodemic Task Force project stems from the fact that in

recent months we have been bombarded with a lot of conflicting information,

some, perhaps the most interesting, were largely incomprehensible to those who

did not have a scientific background. Therefore, I decided to take advantage of

the opportunity to have many colleagues who instead had this background, to

launch a dissemination initiative, trying to create clarity and a common

vocabulary in terms of scientific terminology for the general public and for

the community of PQE Group." Gilda D'Incerti, CEO and founder - PQE Group

[https://www.pqegroup.com/ ]

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Source: PQE Group