COVID-19–Associated Misinformation Across the South Asian Diaspora: Qualitative Study of WhatsApp Messages

Anjana E Sharma   ^{1, 2} , MAS, MD ;   Kiran Khosla   ³ , BA ;   Kameswari Potharaju   ⁴ , BA ;   Arnab Mukherjea   ⁵ , MPH, DrPH ;   Urmimala Sarkar   ^{2, 6} , MPH, MD

¹ Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States

² Center for Vulnerable Populations at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States

³ School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States

⁴ University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States

⁵ Department of Public Health, California State University East Bay, Hayward, CA, United States

⁶ Division of General Internal Medicine at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States