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The COVID-19 infodemic
Fecha
2021Registro en:
Revista Panamericana de Salud Publica/Pan American Journal of Public Health
Autor
García-Saisó, Sebastián
Marti, Myrna
Brooks, Ian
Curioso, Walter H.
González, Diego
Malek, Victoria
Mejía Medina, Felipe
Radix, Carlene
Otzoy, Daniel
Zacarías, Soraya
Pereira dos Santos, Eliane
D’Agostino, Marcelo
Institución
Resumen
On 15 February 2020, during the Munich Security Conference(1), the Director of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr.Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, stated that the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic was accompanied by a fight against an “infodemic”, leading to a series of initiatives by the WHO and other organizations to face this challenge. This situation is not new: others have occurred during other health emergen-cies, but never one of the current magnitude, resulting from the increased use of digital applications (2). In the age of digital interdependence, this phenomenon is amplified by the conver-gence of increased access to mobile devices, internet access, and
the use of social networks, which are spreading it like a virus, further and faster than ever before (3).