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Understanding and reducing the fear of COVID-19

Author(s): Kwan Hoong Ng, Ray Kemp
Affiliation(s): Department of Biomedical Imaging, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 50603, Malaysia; more
Corresponding email(s): ngkh@ummc.edu.my
Key Words: Pandemic; COVID-19; Fear; Infodemic; Rumour

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Kwan Hoong Ng, Ray Kemp. Understanding and reducing the fear of COVID-19[J]. Journal of Zhejiang University Science B,in press.Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering,in press.https://doi.org/10.1631/jzus.B2000228

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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).

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