Table 3.
Rates of adoption of COVID-19-related terms during the lockdown (February 11 to May 18, 2020).
| Source | Rate of adoption (%) | |||
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|
SARS-CoV-2 (infodemic scale: 0) |
COVID (and related) (infodemic scale: 1) |
Novel coronavirus (infodemic scale: 1) |
Coronavirus (infodemic scale: 4) |
| PubMed | 27.5 | 38.6 | 28.8 | 5.1 |
| Italian Ministry of Health | 1.3 | 78.2 | 9.0 | 11.5 |
| 24.3 | 28.4 | 25.7 | 21.6 | |
| La Repubblica | 0.6 | 33.2 | 1.3 | 64.8 |
| Il Corriere della Sera | 1.2 | 44.0 | 1.0 | 53.8 |
| Other newspapersa | 1.6 | 39.9 | 1.4 | 57.1 |
| Rai (Google News) | 0.0 | 15.4 | 0.6 | 84.0 |
| Mediaset (Google News) | 0.0 | 7.0 | 0.7 | 92.3 |
aThis item includes Il Sole 24 Ore, Il Fatto Quotidiano, Il Giornale, and La Stampa.