With the spread of COVID-19 in 2020, the words “pandemic” and “epidemic” are now consistently in the minds of everyday citizens, but The Wall Street Journal’s Ben Zimmer wishes to press upon another term relating to COVID-19 upon the public: Infodemic.

Zimmer reports that the term infodemic is a portmanteau of “information” and “epidemic.” Coined during the SARS outbreak in 2003, it refers to an “overabundance of information, some accurate and some not.”

The World Health Organization warns that this current infodemic occurring over COVID-19 makes it hard for the average citizen to find trustworthy health information and reliable guidance, which makes this information overabundance very dangerous. And the speed with which information, whether it is reliable or not, can travel through social media certainly can exacerbate the problem.

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