A Qualitative Study of Pre-Vaccine Decrease of Mortality from COVID-19

Vugar Mammadov and Lala Jafarova

A chapter in Biotechnology to Combat COVID-19 from IntechOpen

Abstract: More than a year has passed since the appearance of disease called COVID-19 in the world. This disease became the reason for unprecedented measures taken so far, having received the classification of pandemic. The world has faced with pandemics before, but society has not yet taken such unprecedented restrictive measures. The restrictions of not only local but even of global nature, such as the suspension of international flights, various scientific and political events were adopted around the world. Media resources have played a key role in the formation and development of the attitude towards the disease in people. Despite all the depressing news, the facts showed a low mortality rate, which is often ignored by the media. As a result, medical staff around the world have faced psychological health issues among the different groups of the population, especially vulnerable ones such as people with chronic disease and with weak immunity. At present, it is early to talk about the results and outcomes of the pandemic. However, previous year has taught us many lessons and can become a key factor in understanding the role of the media in pandemic times, developing strategies for combating diseases and protecting public health.

Keywords: coronavirus; coronavirus pandemics; COVID-19; media and coronavirus; infodemic; fake-news; coronavirus and social media; coronavirus and internet; coronavirus and healthcare; quarantine; lockdown; coronavirus pandemics and politics; coronavirus pandemics and economics; telemedicine (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.intechopen.com/chapters/75897 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ito:pchaps:231248

DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.97017

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Chapters from IntechOpen
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Slobodan Momcilovic ().