Since there is a lot of uncertainty and ambiguity on how to control the COVID-19 virus epidemic, news media play a vital role in assisting people in trying to cope with the situation. However, there comes a point where the news may also just be "too much," which can have detrimental effects including deteriorating people's mental health and making them tune it out. Confusion and mental stress are symptoms of information overload. This study intends to describe the experiences of patients with Covid-19 admitted to hospital amid information overload from the media. This study uses the methodology of grounded theory to investigate the patients’ experience with COVID -19 amid an overload of information on the pandemic spread out by the media. In this study, data from some 12 patients with COVID-19 with a history of hospitalization were recorded.