Health Communication Through News Media During the Early Stage of the COVID-19 Outbreak in China: Digital Topic Modeling Approach

• Main Authors: Liu, Qian (Author), Zheng, Zequan (Author), Zheng, Jiabin (Author), Chen, Qiuyi (Author), Liu, Guan (Author), Chen, Sihan (Author), Chu, Bojia (Author), Zhu, Hongyu (Author), Akinwunmi, Babatunde (Author), Huang, Jian (Author), Zhang, Casper J P (Author), Ming, Wai-Kit (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: JMIR Publications, 2020-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BackgroundIn December 2019, a few coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases were first reported in Wuhan, Hubei, China. Soon after, increasing numbers of cases were detected in other parts of China, eventually leading to a disease outbreak in China. As this dreadful disease spreads rapidly, the mass medi...