Scaring Ourselves to Death in the Time of COVID-19: Pandemic Awareness, Virus Anxiety, and Contagious Fear

Abstract

Using and replicating data from GlobalWebIndex, Pew Research Center, Public Knowledge, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Canberra, and WHO, authors performed analyses and made estimates regarding the primary harms of misinformation related to COVID-19. The results of a study based on data collected from 3,400 respondents provide support for author´s research model.