Table 4.
Rates of adoption of COVID-19–related terms during the lockdown (May 19, 2020, to March 17, 2021).
| Source | Rate of adoption (%) | |||
|
|
SARS-CoV-2 (infodemic scale: 0) |
COVID (and related) (infodemic scale: 1) |
Novel coronavirus (infodemic scale: 1) |
Coronavirus (infodemic scale: 4) |
| PubMed | 26.6 | 42.9 | 27.6 | 2.8 |
| Italian Ministry of Health | 0.9 | 90.9 | 1.8 | 6.4 |
| 25.7 | 28.6 | 22.9 | 22.9 | |
| La Repubblica | 0.9 | 76.5 | 0.3 | 22.3 |
| Il Corriere della Sera | 1.5 | 75.1 | 0.6 | 22.7 |
| Other newspapersa | 1.1 | 74.0 | 0.1 | 24.8 |
| Rai (Google News) | 0.5 | 49.3 | 0.0 | 50.2 |
| Mediaset (Google News) | 0.0 | 38.6 | 1.3 | 60.1 |
aThis item includes Il Sole 24 Ore, Il Fatto Quotidiano, Il Giornale, and La Stampa.