ArticleJournal of community health2020
Coverage of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Online Versions of Highly Circulated U.S. Daily Newspapers.
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- Evaluating the long-term portrayal of antibiotic resistance in major U.S. newspapers.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Avoiding Covid-19 risk information in the United States: The role of attitudes, norms, affect, social dominance orientations, and perceived trustworthiness of scientists.Risk analysis : an official publication of the Society for Risk Analysis · 2023Article
- The value of public service broadcasting in Japan during COVID-19 pandemic: An analysis of WTP by Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition.Telecommunications policy · 2023Article
- Local TV News Coverage of Racial Disparities in COVID-19 During the First Wave of the Pandemic, March-June 2020.Race and social problems · 2023Article
- The impact of Public Health Emergency (PHE) on the news dissemination strength: Evidence from Chinese-Speaking Vloggers on YouTube.PloS one · 2023Article
- Framing of COVID-19 in Newspapers: A Perspective from the US-Mexico Border.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Perceptions and knowledge regarding the COVID-19 pandemic between U.S. and China: a mixed methods study.Globalization and health · 2022Article
- COVID-19 Study on Scientific Articles in Health Communication: A Science Mapping Analysis in Web of Science.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
- Reporting of recombinant adenovirus-based COVID-19 vaccine adverse events in online versions of three highly circulated US newspapers.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2021Article
- Validation of the COVID-19 Transmission Misinformation Scale and Conditional Indirect Negative Effects on Wearing a Mask in Public.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Validation of the COVID-19 Disbelief Scale: Conditional indirect effects of religiosity and COVID-19 fear on intent to vaccinate.Acta psychologica · 2021Article
- COVID-19 Vaccine Literacy of Family Carers for Their Older Parents in Japan.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- What have we learned in the past year? A study on pharmacy purchases of psychiatric drugs from wholesalers in the days prior to the first and second COVID-19 lockdowns in Germany.Journal of psychiatric research · 2021Article
- Promoting Mask Use on TikTok: Descriptive, Cross-sectional Study.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2021Article
- Early Perceptions of COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps in German-Speaking Countries: Comparative Mixed Methods Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2021Article
- 'It's like being in a war with an invisible enemy': A document analysis of bereavement due to COVID-19 in UK newspapers.PloS one · 2021Article
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Abstract
With the proliferation of news and the abundance of unknowns, COVID-19 information became rife with rumors and infiltrated consumers with confusion and information overload. In situations like this, it is important to provide consumers with credible and reliable information about the pandemic which is affecting their lives and livelihoods. Articles about coronavirus published in online versions of USA Today online, Wall Street Journal online and NYTimes.com between January and March 2020 were identified. Only articles where the search terms appeared in the headline were included as it was considered a more effective approach to understanding the health communication trends for this outbreak. These criteria resulted in 5,285 articles published on this topic during this time. All articles were imported into Dedoose mixed-methods software for thematic analysis. The frequency of each identified theme appearing in reviewed articles was counted, together with excerpts illustrating the specific theme. Overall, the five most common themes appearing in reviewed articles were "financial impact of COVID-19" (11.6%), "stories of affected individuals" (7.0%), "death and death rates" (6.8%), "precaution recommendations for public" (6.2%), and "quarantine" (5.9%). The newspapers did not just report the numbers (number of infections, ventilators, deaths, economic losses) but they also reported the context of the pandemic, such as, impact on economy, efforts to slow the spread of infection, switch to working from home, presence of health disparities, scientific search for reliable COVID-19 tests, and effect on supply chains. News media play a vital role in enhancing understanding of pandemic, but also in shaping public response to public health messages.
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