Data from: Politics overwhelms science in the Covid-19 pandemic: evidence from the whole coverage of the Italian quality newspapers

"SARS-CoV-2 general corpus" includes Italian newspaper articles published in the timespan between January 1, 2020 and June 15, 2020, containing at least one of the following terms: [covid, corona virus, OR coronavirus]. Sources: Corriere della Sera, La Repubblica, Il Sole – 24 Ore, La Stampa, Avvenire, Il Giornale, Il Mattino di Napoli, Il Messaggero.