Application of a Reliable Web API's in the Fight against COVID-19 Infodemia

Abstract

Infodemia is an overload of information about a problem, usually false and unverified. In this paper, the problem of infodemia created by declaring a COVID-19 pandemic is considered. A list of Web services has been formed that provide reliable pandemic data from relevant sources, and as such, in the fight against the COVID-19 infodemia can be used. The freemium Web API service COVID-19 data in detail with a set of GET methods by which users can request reliable data is described. In addition to global pandemic data, data on individual countries and regions from this service may be requested. The latency of the Web API service COVID-19 data was determined using the getLatestTotals method for reading global data. Based on the obtained results, a way of using this Web service in the fight against the COVID-19 infodemia was proposed.