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- W4221093485 abstract "<sec> <title>BACKGROUND</title> The COVID-19 infodemic is a relevant public health situation that has undermined the effectiveness of sanitary and containment measures. </sec> <sec> <title>OBJECTIVE</title> This paper investigates the web interest of Italian users in sources of COVID-19 dis-misinformation and assumption of behaviors in contrast to the anti-pandemic vaccination regulations. The main purpose is to provide guidance for targeted interventions by health authorities. </sec> <sec> <title>METHODS</title> Infodemic keywords have been mined and verified thanks to the fact-checking websites Bufale.net and Butac.it and then searched on Google Trends. Multi-comparative tests and linear regressions were employed to compare the relative search volumes (RSV) of the pre-pandemic (2017-2020) and post-pandemic (2020-2022) periods. Since the adjustment for the multi-comparison is subject to authors' bias and there is no clear consensus in the literature, we provide both the adjusted P-values (P) and the adjusted P-values (Adj. P). </sec> <sec> <title>RESULTS</title> These findings reveal a drastic and widespread growth in the web interest of Italian netizens towards sources of fake news and illegal and epidemiologically risky practices such as the purchase of counterfeit green passes. Almost all infodemic keywords' RSV increased significantly (16/17, from 40% to 2700%, Adj. P<.001). The web interest in disinformation channels such as ByoBlu and Radio Radio recorded the most significant relative increase, especially during the end of 2021 and the beginning of 2022. The RSV of keywords buy green pass, unlimited green pass, (buy green pass-related query), fake green pass cost, fake green pass where to find it increased from 40% to 350% during the first week of February 2022. Other relevant queries in the same period were create fake green pass, how to create fake green pass, how to have fake green pass and fake qr code green pass. Moreover, the query cancel vaccine reached 7% of all web searches containing the word covid from January 2021 until February 2022. All related queries concerned the cancellation of the COVID-19 vaccine reservation and were reported as breakout (i.e., drastically increasing) and were growing during the first week of February 2022 (from 50% to 110%). Nonetheless, this query could be influenced by the number of new COVID-19 infections. </sec> <sec> <title>CONCLUSIONS</title> In light of the growing vaccination hesitancy and intention towards counterfeiting green passes, government authorities are recommended to take appropriate countermeasures promptly. Google Trends should be adopted as a quick surveillance complementary tool for making targeted public health and disclosure interventions. The increasing web interest in fake news sources signals the need to build resilience to dis-misinformation in the population. </sec>" @default.
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- W4221093485 date "2022-03-08" @default.
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- W4221093485 title "Infodemic Emergency in Italy: A Longitudinal Analysis of the Web Interest in Sources of Dis-Misinformation, Epidemiologically Dangerous Behaviors, and Vaccine Hesitancy During COVID-19 (Preprint)" @default.
- W4221093485 doi "https://doi.org/10.2196/preprints.37819" @default.
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