Accepted for/Published in: Journal of Medical Internet Research
Date Submitted: Jul 18, 2020
Date Accepted: Nov 3, 2020
Date Submitted to PubMed: Nov 6, 2020
Infodemiological study on COVID-19 epidemic and infodemic
ABSTRACT
Background:
The COVID-19 infodemic coordinating with the COVID-19 outbreak receives scant consideration. The global profusion of tangled monikers and hashtags has found their ways in daily communication and contributed to a backlash against the Chinese. Official naming efforts against infodemic should be met with a fair share of identification.
Objective:
Based on brief critical reviews on previous multifarious naming practices, we punctuate heuristic introspection in scientific conventions and sociocultural paradigms.
Methods:
Infodemiological analysis promises to articulate that people around the globe are divided in their favor stigmatized monikers because of perceptual bias in the public and scientific communities.
Results:
The official portfolio “COVID-19” and “SARS-CoV-2” has not become de facto standard usages, but the full-fledged names are excepted to duly contribute to the resilience of negative perceptual bias and collective behavioral propensities amid the public panic.
Conclusions:
As an integral component of preparedness, appropriate nomenclatures should be duly assigned to the newly identified coronavirus and social mobilization in one firm voice is a high priority for combating the COVID-19 infodemic.
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