Coronavirus and Social Media: A Heuristic Approach in the Face of Pandemic

Abstract

Throughout the world history, humanity has been plagued by varieties of virus and bacteria, at catastrophic levels, which claimed millions of lives at different point in time, and such pandemics include, Antonine Plague 5 million deaths, Black Death 200 million, smallpox 56 million, polio over 6 thousand, HIV-Aids 36 Million, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) 774, Spanish flu 25-50 Million and currently, Coronavirus 110 thousand and still counting (Slawson, 2020). Many believed corona virus is traceable to bats, snakes and pangolin from a wild animal market in Wuhan, (Huanan South China Seafood Market) China, suggesting a possible zoonotic origin (Read et al., 2020). An increasing number of cases seems to have resulted from human-to-human transmission, and aided by widespread commerce and services across 210 countries as at 12 April, 2020 and territories around the world and two international conveyance the Diamond Princess cruise ship, harbored in Yokohama, Japan and the Holland America's MS Zaandam cruise ship, (Munster et al., 2020).