Fig. 3: Mapping infodemic risk worldwide.
From: Assessing the risks of ‘infodemics’ in response to COVID-19 epidemics
The infodemic risk of each country, aggregated over time, is colour-coded on the map. The panels show the evolution of risk over time for a sample of countries; the bars indicate the partial contributions of verified and unverified users to the overall risk and the dashed lines represent the cumulative mean of the IRI at a given day d (computed as the ratio between the cumulative sum of the daily IRI in the days between 22 January and d, and the number of days between these two dates). Risk evolution for the whole world is also shown, demonstrating an overall decrease of risk over time (bottom middle panel, where the grey line represents a LOESS regression with R2 = 0.29). The markers horizontally aligned at the top of each panel indicate the daily confirmed epidemiological cases, with their number encoded by the markers’ sizes (Venezuela does not contain epidemiological markers as no confirmed cases were reported at the time of the anaysis). Map made with public domain Natural Earth data.
