Tweet and Retweet Journalism During the Pandemic:

ABSTRACT – Starting from a gap identified in the literature regarding the use of social networks by newspapers to disseminate urgent news, this article aims to study strategies of journalistic content in social media, particularly in the context of a public crisis and to compare the effectiveness of different types of news disseminated in this medium, namely in terms of reach and generated interaction. The following research question was defined: how popular was public health news in Brazil during the covid-19 pandemic? Based on contributions in the literature, a quantitative study was carried out, using the content analysis technique. The study enable to better understand the sharing behavior of news in Twitter, the consumption behavior of newspaper readers on social networks and the generation of news during the pandemic. RESUMO – Partindo de uma lacuna identificada na literatura quanto ao uso das redes sociais pelos jornais para divulgação de notícias urgentes, este artigo tem como objetivo estudar estratégias no consumo de conteúdo jornalístico nas mídias sociais, particularmente durante uma crise mundial, e comparar a eficácia de diferentes modalidades de notícias divulgadas neste meio, nomeadamente ao nível do alcance e da interação gerada. Definiu-se a seguinte questão de pesquisa: qual a popularidade das notícias de saúde pública no Brasil durante a pandemia de covid-19? Com base nas contribuições da literatura, foi realizado um estudo quantitativo, utilizando a técnica de análise de conteúdo. O estudo possibilitou compreender melhor o comportamento de compartilhamento de notícias no Twitter, o comportamento de consumo dos leitores de jornais nas redes sociais e a geração de notícias durante a pandemia. RESUMEN – A partir de una brecha identificada en la literatura sobre el uso de las redes sociales por parte de los periódicos para difundir noticias urgentes, este artículo tiene como objetivo estudiar estrategias en el consumo de periodistas de noticias en las redes sociales, particularmente durante una crisis global y comparar la efectividad de diferentes modalidades de las noticias difundidas en este medio, es decir, en términos de alcance e interacción generada. Se definió la siguiente pregunta de investigación: ¿cuál es la popularidad de las noticias de salud pública en Brasil durante la pandemia de covid-19? Con base en aportes de la literatura, se realizó un estudio cuantitativo utilizando la técnica de análisis de contenido. El estudio permitió comprender mejor el comportamiento de compartir noticias en Twitter, el comportamiento de consumo de los lectores de periódicos en las redes sociales y la generación de noticias durante la pandemia.

Governance Strategies of Public Crisis Communication in the New Media Environment – Taking Tobacco Industry as Example

Social and economic development has brought about a higher standard of living and higher material standards, resulting in higher requirements for spiritual life. As a result, the development of the new media industry and related industries was accelerated, providing various channels for the dissemination of information. To put it simply, as an important concept in today's society, new media is a kind of social environment, which is mainly attached to the Internet industry and has profoundly changed the media pattern and communication pattern in contemporary society. Because the new media mainly depends on the network, and the network spreads rapidly and in a wide range, it will spread the news to the public as soon as there is a major event. Therefore, the emergence and widespread use of new media has also had a great impact on the government's crisis communication. In the new environmental situation, the government will face more problems and difficulties, and more supervision by all the masses. In this paper, from the characteristics of public crisis communication in the tobacco industry, the measures and strategies of public crisis communication governance under the new media environment are put forward.

The death anxiety in the shadow of perceived stress: a danger facing hospitalized patients with COVID-19 (Preprint)

UNSTRUCTURED COVID-19 has become a public crisis in the world. This study aimed to determine the relationship between perceived stress and death anxiety in COVID-19 hospitalized patients. Participants consist of 200 COVID-19 patients admitted to a hospital in eastern Iran selected by convenience sample and an online survey. The results showed a significant direct relationship between perceived stress and death anxiety in patients (p <0.05). In addition, perceived stress predicted death anxiety.

Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome with Features of Atypical Kawasaki Disease during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Background. Although Kawasaki disease (KD) is the most common self-limited systemic vasculitis in pediatrics, the exact etiology of the disease, its association with other diseases, and pathogens is still unknown. In order to achieve a better understanding and management of the disease, documentation and reporting of atypical cases is justified, particularly with the growing number of children with inflammatory syndrome with clinical features simulating KD during the COVID-19 pandemic. Here, we present a case of an atypical case of KD presenting as multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS) during the COVID-19 pandemic. Case Presentation. The patient is a 7-year-old girl who developed fever (39°C) and erythematous multiform rash on the abdomen and along with erythema and edema on the extremities. Laboratory evaluation revealed neutrophilia and lymphopenia along with elevated C-reactive protein, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, troponin, lactate dehydrogenase, ferritin, and D-dimer. Although the patient did not fulfill the KD criteria, based on approved guidelines and approaches regarding atypical KD and multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) during the COVID-19 pandemic, intravenous immunoglobulin along with aspirin was administered for the patients. The patient’s symptoms resolved with an uneventful postdischarge course. Conclusion. Early diagnosis and treatment of patients meeting full or partial criteria for KD are critical to preventing end-organ damage and other long-term complications, especially during times of public crisis and global health emergencies, such as the novel coronavirus pandemic.

Staatliche Krisenpolitik in der Pandemie: ausgewählte Lehren der Ökonomik

Zusammenfassung Gesellschaften erwarten von ihren Regierungen, dass sie die negativen Effekte eines Pandemieschocks minimieren. Dieser ist zugleich ein extremer Gesundheits-, aber auch ökonomischer und Gesellschaftsschock. Zudem beschuldigen Kritiker die Politik, individuelle Freiheit zu sehr zu beschränken, um Menschen vor Covid-19 zu schützen. Eine Pandemie wird idealtypisch in Phasen mit unterschiedlicher staatlicher Politik zur Kontrolle und Bekämpfung der Krise eingeteilt. Pandemien verursachen Kollektivgutprobleme, da temporäre Beschränkungen zur Krisenüberwindung nötig sind. Individuelle Eigenverantwortung reicht während einer Pandemie nicht aus. Ergänzend ist kollektive Selbstbegrenzung erforderlich, um Trittbrettfahrerprobleme zu überwinden. Abstract: Public Crisis Policy During a Pandemic: Selected Lessons of Economics Societies expect their governments to minimize the negative impact of the pandemic shock which represents both an extreme health as well as economic and societal challenge. At the same time, critics blame incumbent leaders often for hurting individual freedom and livelihood unpardonable in order to save lives from the covid-19 disease. The article considers ideal typical phases of a pandemic with differing public policies to control and fight the crisis. During a pandemic, space becomes a ‘collective good’ where some kind of rationing is needed if other protective measures work only insufficiently. Personal responsibility only is insufficient during a pandemic. Shared responsibility is needed also in order to avoid free riding problems.

Supportive or Confining? The Impact of War Metaphors From the COVID-19 Pandemic on Persons With Disabilities in Mainland China

Ensuring the well-being of persons with disabilities (PWDs) is a priority in the public sector during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. To contain this unprecedented public crisis in China, a set of nationwide anti-epidemic discourse systems centered on war metaphors has guided the epidemic's prevention and control. While the public is immersed in the joy brought by the stage victory, most ignore the situation of the disadvantaged PWDs. Accordingly, this study adopts and presents a qualitative research method to explore the impact of war metaphors on PWDs. The results showed that while there was some formal and informal support for PWDs during this period, they were increasingly marginalized. Owing to the lack of a disability lens and institutional exclusion, PWDs were placed on the margins of the epidemic prevention and control system like outsiders. Affected by pragmatism under war metaphors, PWDs are regarded as non-contributory or inefficient persons; therefore, they are not prioritized and are thus placed into a state of being voiceless and invisible. This research can provide inspiration for improving public services for PWDs in the context of COVID-19.

The Chinese system of government relief supplies: from the perspective of knowledge management

Purpose Public crisis often generates new knowledge that should be incorporated into a government’s macro-control to ensure the relief supply. From the perspective of public crisis knowledge management, the Chinese system of Government relief supplies can be considered as a special case of the knowledge system. This paper aims to investigate the supply and production mechanism of relief goods and explore the advantages of the Chinese system when a sudden public crisis occurs. Design/methodology/approach Under the Chinese system, the authors construct a relief supply chain model consisting of the Chinese Government, one manufacturer and one supplier, where the supplier has no capital constraints. Given the demand for relief goods, the government purchases from the manufacturer with a guide price. Then, the manufacturer decides on its order quantity and offers a wholesale price to the supplier. The supplier has a random capacity and decides on the level of knowledge acquisition to improve its capacity. Findings The authors first obtain the analytical solution for the manufacturer to motivate a high level of knowledge acquisition from the supplier. Specifically, the manufacturer’s optimal order quantity is equal to the demand and the optimal wholesale price has a cost-plus form that reimburses the supplier for its production cost and knowledge-acquisition cost. Next, the authors derive the optimal guide price for the government, which should be set to subsidize the manufacturer with a proportion of the sourcing cost. Finally, the authors compare the Chinese system with the market mechanism where the supplier has capital constraints and confirm that the Chinese system is more beneficial to both the manufacturer and the government. Originality/value Quantitative research on the Chinese system of Government relief supplies is difficult to be conducted. This paper provides feasible and practical methods to quantify the benefits of the Chinese system. The results reveal that the Chinese system is an effective mechanism of public crisis knowledge management, which can be helpful to the government’s policy-making in practice.

Learning from Pandemic Mode to Create a Sustainable Digital Future

Public libraries are known as places for information, communication, and gathering, but what happens when a pandemic restricts social contact? In the years 2020 and 2021, in response to the coronavirus pandemic, libraries worldwide revised services and explored new ways to provide information and support to communities—primarily through digital services. This conceptual analytical paper responds to this approach by suggesting the use of a tripartite information access and digital inclusion model that can be used for evaluative processes related to ensuring ongoing physical, intellectual, and social access to public library services during a public crisis shutdown. We provide an overview of some of the new and altered services provided within the case of the Richland Library system in South Carolina, USA, and then discuss these changes using the tripartite model as a means to illustrate how this theoretical model can be employed for practical evaluation and decision-making.