The COVID-19 infodemic

• Autores: 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
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2021
• Institución: Universidad Continental
• Repositorio: CONTINENTAL-Institucional
• Lenguaje: inglés
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.continental.edu.pe:20.500.12394/10297
• Enlace del recurso: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12394/10297; http://dx.doi.org/10.26633/RPSP.2021.56
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Infodemia; Epidemia; http://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#1.02.02

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).