Infodemic, the other pandemic during 2019 coronavirus disease

Authors

  • Abel Salvador Arroyo-Sánchez Facultad de Medicina Humana, Universidad Privada Antenor Orrego. Trujillo, Perú; Hospital Víctor Lazarte Echegaray, Seguro Social de Salud, EsSalud. Trujillo, Perú. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6022-6894
  • José Elías Cabrejo Paredes Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional de Trujillo. Trujillo, Perú. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7335-0541
  • María Peregrina Cruzado Vallejos Universidad Cesar Vallejo. Trujillo, Perú; Oficina de Planificación Operativa, Red Asistencial La Libertad, Seguro Social de Salud, EsSalud. Trujillo, Perú. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7809-4711

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15381/anales.v81i2.17793

Keywords:

Pandemics, Access to information, Panic, Coronavirus Infection

Abstract

Infodemia is the information epidemy associated to fear, speculation and rumors, amplified and transmitted rapidly by modern information technologies and that negatively affects society. Its association with the 2019 Coronavirus Disease pandemic is not exclusive, as it had already been described with the Coronavirus-1 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome pandemic in 2003. This false or misleading information may cause public reluctance widespread adoption of infection control measures promoted by health authorities, and thus delaying essential recomendations. The World Health Organization (WHO), in its eagerness to counteract, has established the WHO Information Network to Epidemics.

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Published

2020-06-10

Issue

Vol. 81 No. 2 (2020)

Section

Artículo Especial

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Arroyo-Sánchez AS, Cabrejo Paredes JE, Cruzado Vallejos MP. Infodemic, the other pandemic during 2019 coronavirus disease. An Fac med [Internet]. 2020 Jun. 10 [cited 2025 May 25];81(2). Available from: https://revistasinvestigacion.unmsm.edu.pe/index.php/anales/article/view/17793