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infodemic: a standalone construct

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Health communication

an overabundance of information, accurate and false, that spreads during a health crisis and makes trustworthy guidance hard to find.

In health communication, infodemic refers to an overabundance of information, accurate and false, that spreads during a health crisis and makes trustworthy guidance hard to find. This meaning comes from Zarocostas (2020) in The Lancet.[1]

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References

Zarocostas, J. (2020). How to fight an infodemic. The Lancet, 395(10225), 676. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(20)30461-x

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