COVID-19 epidemiology: Through the eyes of vernacular newspapers

• Main Authors: B N Mahima (Author), Hemant Kr Tiwari (Author), Payel Mahapatra (Author), Senthil Amudhan (Author), Girish N Rao (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Media plays an indispensable role in society to influence health literacy. To document COVID-19 coverage in Kannada daily newspapers, hardcopies of 455 editions were methodically reviewed. Content analysis and data coding of 11 of the possible 60 terms/concepts related to COVID-19 epidemiology, was...