Table 2.
Rates of adoption of COVID-19–related terms at the start of the pandemic (January 1 to February 13, 2020).
| Source | Rate of adoption (%) | |||
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2019-ncov (infodemic scale: 0) |
Novel coronavirus (infodemic scale: 1) |
Coronavirus (infodemic scale: 4) |
Chinese (corona)virus (infodemic scale: 9) |
| PubMed | 42.7 | 45.2 | 12.1 | <0.1 |
| Italian Ministry of Health | 11.8 | 52.9 | 35.3 | 0.0 |
| 29.3 | 25.9 | 27.6 | 17.2 | |
| La Repubblica | 0.2 | 5.3 | 92.9 | 1.6 |
| Il Corriere della Sera | 1.3 | 4.7 | 87.7 | 6.3 |
| Other newspapersa | 0.5 | 0.1 | 93.9 | 5.4 |
| Rai (Google News) | 1.6 | 0 | 96.8 | 1.6 |
| Mediaset (Google News) | 0 | 0 | 97.8 | 2.2 |
aThis item includes Il Sole 24 Ore, Il Fatto Quotidiano, Il Giornale, and La Stampa.