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The "first aid information shelves" will include instructional videos from authoritative health organizations and be the first search results seen by users.

THE IQ-Creator Program supports healthcare professionals in creating content for underserved communities, while Aloud uses AI to dub videos in multiple languages.

Licensed healthcare professionals can apply to make their content eligible for health source information panels. The features previously only applied to organizations like educational institutions, hospitals and public health departments.

The tech giant also announces a partnership between YouTube and the Kaiser Family Foundation that aims to help organizations create high-quality informational content on topics like mental health, maternal care and health inequity.

The tech giant also provided an update on its artificial intelligence research and announced the expansion of YouTube's tools to mitigate the spread of health misinformation.

First-time offenders will have their content removed, but if it happens three times in 90 days, a user's channel will be pulled down. 

The company's chief product officer wrote that deleting content as quickly as possible doesn't fix the problem.

At an UpNext panel at HIMSS 21 Digital, health leaders at Facebook, YouTube and CBS News discussed the lessons learned from a year and a half of COVID-19.

KX Jin, Dr. Garth Graham and Darius Walker will join HIMSS Media's Jonah Comstock for a virtual panel discussion as part of UpNext.

The program pairs up celebrities and health experts like Dr. Anthony Fauci to talk about COVID-19 vaccination efforts.