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Infodemiological Study on COVID-19 Epidemic and COVID-19 Infodemic
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: Received: 25 February 2020 / Approved: 25 February 2020 / Online: 25 February 2020 (12:33:45 CET)
Version 2 : Received: 4 March 2020 / Approved: 4 March 2020 / Online: 4 March 2020 (11:25:59 CET)
Version 3 : Received: 14 March 2020 / Approved: 16 March 2020 / Online: 16 March 2020 (15:12:33 CET)
Version 2 : Received: 4 March 2020 / Approved: 4 March 2020 / Online: 4 March 2020 (11:25:59 CET)
Version 3 : Received: 14 March 2020 / Approved: 16 March 2020 / Online: 16 March 2020 (15:12:33 CET)
How to cite: Hu, Z.; Yang, Z.; Li, Q.; Zhang, A.; Huang, Y. Infodemiological Study on COVID-19 Epidemic and COVID-19 Infodemic. Preprints 2020, 2020020380. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202002.0380.v2 Hu, Z.; Yang, Z.; Li, Q.; Zhang, A.; Huang, Y. Infodemiological Study on COVID-19 Epidemic and COVID-19 Infodemic. Preprints 2020, 2020020380. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202002.0380.v2
Abstract
Less aligned emphasis has been given to the COVID-19 infodemic coordinating with the COVID-19 outbreak. Global profusion of tangled monikers and hashtags has found their ways in daily communication and contributed to backlash against Chinese. Official naming efforts against infodemic should be meet with a fair share of identification. Based on brief critical reviews on previous multifarious naming practices, we punctuate heuristic introspection in scientific conventions and sociocultural paradigms. Infodemiological analysis promises to articulate that people around the globe are divided in their favor stigmatized monikers in the public and scientific communities because of perceptual bias. There is no positive correlation between the degree of infection in their territories and collective perceptual bias to COVID-19. The official portfolio “COVID-19” and “SARS-CoV-2” has not become de facto standard usages, but full-fledged official names are excepted to duly contribute to the resilience of negative perceptual bias and collective behavioral propensities.
Keywords
Coronavirus; Infodemiology; COVID-19 infodemic; Collective perceptual bias; Collective behavioral propensities; Psychological Typhoon Eye Effect
Subject
Social Sciences, Psychology
Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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