Research on the Influence of Information Diffusion on the Transmission of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)
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With the rapid development of the Mobile Internet in China, epidemic information is real-time and holographic, and the role of information diffusion in epidemic control is increasingly prominent. At the same time, the publicity of all kinds of big data also provides the possibility to explore the impact of media information diffusion on disease transmission. We explored the mechanism of the influence of information diffusion on the transmission of COVID-19, developed a model of the interaction between information diffusion and disease transmission based on the Susceptible–Infected–Recovered (SIR) model, and conducted an empirical test by using econometric methods. The benchmark result showed that there was a significant negative correlation between the information diffusion and the transmission of COVID-19. The result of robust test showed that the diffusion of both epidemic information and protection information hindered the further transmission of the epidemic. Heterogeneity test results showed that the effect of epidemic information on the suppression of COVID-19 is more significant in cities with weak epidemic control capabilities and higher Internet development levels.
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SciScore for 10.1101/2020.03.31.20048439: (What is this?)
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Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources Therefore, based on the search services provided by Baidu Index, six epidemic-related terms of “the novel coronavirus”, “pneumonia”, “Zhong Nanshan”, “pneumonia symptoms”, “masks” and “correct wearing of masks” were selected as search terms, and the search index during the epidemic period (January 19-February 10) was crawled by Python, and the daily level of information diffusion of prefecture-level cities was summed up. Pythonsuggested: (IPython, RRID:SCR_001658)Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open …
SciScore for 10.1101/2020.03.31.20048439: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.Table 2: Resources
Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources Therefore, based on the search services provided by Baidu Index, six epidemic-related terms of “the novel coronavirus”, “pneumonia”, “Zhong Nanshan”, “pneumonia symptoms”, “masks” and “correct wearing of masks” were selected as search terms, and the search index during the epidemic period (January 19-February 10) was crawled by Python, and the daily level of information diffusion of prefecture-level cities was summed up. Pythonsuggested: (IPython, RRID:SCR_001658)Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).
Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.
Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.
Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.
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