International Internal Medicine Journal(IIMJ)

Global Centre for Academic Research, South Africa

Publications

• Research Article   
  The Cause of Panic at the Outbreak of Covid-19 in South Africa-A Comparative Analysis With Similar Outbreak in China and New York
  Author(s): King Costa*
  
  Lack of proper messaging at an outbreak of a novel disease causes panic with more serious damaging impacts on livelihoods, social-fabric of communities, economic landscapes, and political stability. There have been notable high levels of panic in South Africa and the globe with regard to the outbreak of COVID-19. The current lack of knowledge and poor communication has been attributed as a precursor to the skyrocketing global panic (Freimuth, Linnan, Potter, 2000). Fuelling this panic is the rate at which the incidence of new infections is increasing in countries outside of China, with Italy and Iran leading on a number of new infections and death cases. A Content Analysis method was used to analyze articles, media clips and social network reactions to the outbreak of COVID-19 in South Africa on the 6th of March 2020. The key to the investigation was to understand how author.. Read More»
  

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