Reflections on the COVID-19 infodemic
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.32776/saludybienestarsoc.v5i2.105Keywords:
COVID-19, Information, Social network, Fake-news, Massive mediaAbstract
COVID-19 emergency has become a serious global health problem. Thanks to massive communication media, mainly internet, population has been continuously in contact with information related to the pandemic. However, from the first months there was a great overload of information, both false and true, which the World Health Organization (WHO) has called “infodemics”. In this text, we describe some positive and negative aspects of the great availability of information in social networks, press and scientific media about this emergency, and some consequences of it on social, health and science scopes are described. As a community, university students and professionals of science and health is our responsibility to cooperate the international efforts not only against the COVID-19 pandemic but also against the associated “infodemic”, avoiding spreading erroneous information that can become as dangerous as the disease.
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