Anti-Chinese sentiment during the 2019-nCoV outbreak

Chung, Ronald; Li, Minnie Ming

doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(20)30358-5

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“…The increased number of hospitalized patients and the consequent increase in radiological examinations would make the constant use of chest CT scan (from diagnosis to discharge) difficult to sustain over time [ 24 ]. The dependence on CT creates a huge burden on radiology departments and this makes the CXRs greatly substitute the CT examinations [ 1 – 4 ].…”

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Chest X-ray findings monitoring COVID-19 disease course and severity

Yasin

Gouda

2020

Egypt J Radiol Nucl Med

146

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Background Coronavirus related respiratory illness usually manifests clinically as pneumonia with predominant imaging findings of an atypical or organizing pneumonia. Plain radiography is very helpful for COVID-19 disease assessment and follow-up. It gives an accurate insight into the disease course. We aimed to determine the COVID-19 disease course and severity using chest X-ray (CXR) scoring system and correlate these with patients’ age, sex, and outcome. Results In our study, there were 350 patients proven with positive COVID-19 disease; 220 patients (62.9%) had abnormal baseline CXR and 130 patients (37.1%) had normal baseline CXR. During follow-up chest X-ray studies, 48 patients (13.7%) of the normal baseline CXR showed CXR abnormalities. In abnormal chest X-ray, consolidation opacities were the most common finding seen in 218 patients (81.3%), followed by reticular interstitial thickening seen in 107 patients (39.9%) and GGO seen in 87 patients (32.5%). Pulmonary nodules were found 25 patients (9.3%) and pleural effusion was seen in 20 patients (7.5%). Most of the patients showed bilateral lung affection (181 patients, 67.5%) with peripheral distribution (156 patients, 58.2%) and lower zone affection (196 patients, 73.1%). The total severity score was estimated in the baseline and follow-up CXR and it was ranged from 0 to 8. The outcome of COVID-19 disease was significantly related to the age, sex, and TSS of the patients. Male patients showed significantly higher mortality rate as compared to the female patients (P value 0.025). Also, the mortality rate was higher in patients older than 40 years especially with higher TSS. Conclusion Radiographic findings are very good predictors for assessing the course of COVID-19 disease and it could be used as long-term consequences monitoring.

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Chest X-ray findings monitoring COVID-19 disease course and severity

Yasin

Gouda

2020

Egypt J Radiol Nucl Med

146

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“…Perceptual bias in the perception of natural origin of COVID-19 is part of the reason for negative behavioral propensities in specific regions, rather than the degree of infection in their territories. [5] The prognostic significance of above findings is that infodemiological analysis could be expected to provide a hallmark reference to reframe extensible discussions on the approaching tipping point of psychological typhoon eye effect in the COVID-19…”

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confidence: 90%

“…On one hand, global profusion of running headlines often inscribe fear, prejudice, disgust and hostility into tangled hashtags and monikers, branding discrimination and stoking panic [4][5][6]. Those monikers and morbid contents always team up with each other in the epicenter of infodemic, wherein one sheds light on the social contagion of the other.…”

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Infodemiological study on COVID-19 epidemic and COVID-19 infodemic

Yang

et al. 2020

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Background Less aligned emphasis has been given to the COVID-19 infodemic coordinating with the COVID-19 outbreak. Global profusion of tangled monikers and hashtags has found their ways in daily communication and contributed to backlash against Chinese. Official naming efforts against infodemic should be meet with a fair share of identification. Based on brief critical reviews on previous multifarious naming practices, we punctuate heuristic introspection in scientific conventions and sociocultural paradigms. Methods Infodemiological analysis promises to articulate that people around the globe are divided in their favor stigmatized monikers in the public and scientific communities because of perceptual bias. Results There is no positive correlation between the degree of infection in their territories and collective perceptual bias against COVID-19. The official portfolio “COVID-19” and “SARS-CoV-2” has not become de facto standard usages, but full-fledged official names are excepted to duly contribute to the resilience of negative perceptual bias and collective behavioral propensities amid public panic. Conclusions As an integral component of preparedness, appropriate nomenclatures should be duly assigned to the newly identified coronavirus and caused respiratory tract disease in humans amid global public health crisis.

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“…Unfortunately, this attention is also giving rise to discrimination and racism to the point where scholars called for the need to stop the coronavirus stigma. 10 Although it is unclear why the 'Hubei Province virus' was not a candidate in place of 'Wuhan virus', if a possible factor is the lack of adequate knowledge on Chinese geography or ease of pronunciation, this decision should be outlined and made transparent according to the principle of openness. 6 Overall, it is difficult to gauge the degree of long-term adverse effects of the misinformation or disinformation surrounding phrases, such as 'Wuhan virus', on the health and well-being of people living in Wuhan or China at large.…”

Section: Bmj Global Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%