Medical Misinformation in Polish on the World Wide Web During the COVID-19 Pandemic Period: Infodemiology Study

Małgorzata Chlabicz   ^{1, 2} , PhD ;   Aleksandra Nabożny   ^{3 *} , PhD ;   Jolanta Koszelew   ⁴ , PhD ;   Wojciech Łaguna   ⁵ , MSc ;   Anna Szpakowicz   ⁶ , PhD ;   Paweł Sowa   ¹ , PhD ;   Wojciech Budny   ⁷ , PhD ;   Katarzyna Guziejko   ⁸ , PhD ;   Magdalena Róg-Makal   ² , PhD ;   Sławomir Pancewicz   ⁹ , Prof Dr Med ;   Maciej Kondrusik   ⁹ , PhD ;   Piotr Czupryna   ⁹ , PhD ;   Beata Cudowska   ¹⁰ , PhD ;   Dariusz Lebensztejn   ¹⁰ , Prof Dr Med ;   Anna Moniuszko-Malinowska   ⁹ , Prof Dr Med ;   Adam Wierzbicki   ^{11 *} , Prof Dr ;   Karol A Kamiński   ¹ , Prof Dr Med

¹ Department of Population Medicine and Lifestyle Diseases Prevention, Medical University of Białystok, Białystok, Poland

² Department of Invasive Cardiology, Medical University of Białystok, Białystok, Poland

³ Department of Software Engineering, Gdańsk University of Technology, Gdańsk, Poland

⁴ R&D Department, Science4People Limited Liability Company, Szczecin, Poland

⁵ Faculty of Computer Science, Bialystok University of Technology, Białystok, Poland

⁶ Department of Cardiology, Medical University of Bialystok, Białystok, Poland

⁷ Department of Allergology and Internal Medicine, Medical University of Białystok, Białystok, Poland

⁸ 2nd Department of Lung Diseases and Tuberculosis, Medical University of Białystok, Białystok, Poland

⁹ Department of Infectious Diseases and Neuroinfection, Medical University of Białystok, Białystok, Poland

¹⁰ Department of Pediatrics, Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Nutrition, Allergology and Pulmonology, Medical University of Bialystok, Białystok, Poland

¹¹ Department of Computer Science, Polish-Japaneese Academy of Information Technology, Warsaw, Poland

*these authors contributed equally