ReviewTrends in microbiology2022
The COVID misinfodemic: not new, never more lethal.
Review in Trends in microbiology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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Who cites it
11 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Validation of the Spanish HLS-COVID-Q22 Questionnaire for Measuring Health Literacy on COVID-19 in Peru.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- The deadly triple M (mistrust, misinformation, and missed opportunities): understanding Romania's COVID-19 vaccination campaign and its lasting impact on public health.Frontiers in public health · 2025Review
- From Black Death to COVID-19: Lessons Learned from the Past Pandemics.Le infezioni in medicina · 2025Article
- Effect of nutrition-related infodemics and social media on maternal experience: A nationwide survey in a low/middle income country.World journal of clinical pediatrics · 2024Article
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- The coronavirus disease 2019 infodemic: a concept analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Social media as a tool for detecting underdiagnosed parasitic infections: the case of spirocercosis.Parasitology research · 2023Article
- Factors Associated with COVID-19 Vaccine Refusal: A Community-Based Study in the Menoua Division in Cameroon.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2023Article
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- Psychological experience of Juvenile patients' parents in Fangcang shelter hospital during the Omicron wave of COVID-19 pandemic in Shanghai, China: a qualitative study.BMC public health · 2022Article
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4 authors.
Funding
Abstract
'Infodemia' is a portmanteau between 'information' and 'epidemics', referring to wide and rapid accumulation and dissemination of information, misinformation, and disinformation about a given subject, such as a disease. As facts, rumors and fears mix and disperse, the misinfodemic creates loud background noise, preventing the general public from discerning between accurate and false information. We compared and contrasted key elements of the AIDS and COVID-19 misinfodemics, to identify common features, and, based on experience with the AIDS pandemic, recommend actions to control and reverse the SARS-CoV-2 misinfodemic that contributed to erode the trust between the public and scientists and governments and has created barriers to control of COVID-19. As pandemics emerge and evolve, providing robust responses to future misinfodemics must be a priority for society and public health.
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