Understanding and reducing the fear of COVID-19.

Author: Kwan Hoong NG ¹ ; Ray KEMP ²
Author Information

1. Department of Biomedical Imaging, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 50603, Malaysia.
2. Ray Kemp Consulting, Barrington, Cambridge, CB22 7RR, UK.
Publication Type:Journal Article
Keywords: Pandemic; COVID-19; Fear; Infodemic; Rumour
MeSH: Betacoronavirus; COVID-19; Coronavirus Infections/psychology*; Fear; Health Education; Humans; Pandemics; Panic; Pneumonia, Viral/psychology*; SARS-CoV-2; Social Media; Trust
From: Journal of Zhejiang University. Science. B 2020;21(9):752-754
CountryChina
Language:English
Abstract: The world is now plagued by a pandemic of unprecedented nature caused by a novel, emerging, and still poorly understood infectious disease, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) (Wu and McGoogan, 2020). In addition to the rapidly growing body of scientific and medical literature that is being published, extensive public reports and stories in both the traditional media and social media have served to generate fear, panic, stigmatization, and instances of xenophobia (Zarocostas, 2020).