With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, social media has rapidly become a crucial communication tool for information generation, dissemination, and consumption. In this scoping review, we selected and examined peer-reviewed empirical studies relating to COVID-19 and social media during the first outbreak from November, 2019, to November, 2020. From an analysis of 81 studies, we identified five overarching public health themes concerning the role of online social media platforms and COVID-19. These themes focused on: surveying public attitudes, identifying infodemics, assessing mental health, detecting or predicting COVID-19 cases, analysing government responses to the pandemic, and evaluating quality of health information in prevention education videos. Furthermore, our Review emphasises the paucity of studies on the application of machine learning on data from COVID-19-related social media and a scarcity of studies documenting real-time surveillance that was developed with data from social media on COVID-19. For COVID-19, social media can have a crucial role in disseminating health information and tackling infodemics and misinformation.

What social media told us in the time of COVID-19: a scoping review.

With the onset of COVID-19 pandemic, social media has rapidly become a crucial communication tool for information generation, dissemination, and consumption. In this scoping review, we selected and examined peer-reviewed empirical studies relating to COVID-19 and social media during the first outbreak starting in November 2019 until May 2020. From an analysis of 81 studies, we identified five overarching public health themes concerning the role of online social platforms and COVID-19. These themes focused on: (i) surveying public attitudes, (ii) identifying infodemics, (iii) assessing mental health, (iv) detecting or predicting COVID-19 cases, (v) analyzing government responses to the pandemic, and (vi) evaluating quality of health information in prevention education videos. Furthermore, our review highlights the paucity of studies on the application of machine learning on social media data related to COVID-19 and a lack of studies documenting real-time surveillance developed with social media data on COVID-19. For COVID-19, social media can play a crucial role in disseminating health information as well as tackling infodemics and misinformation.

What social media told about us in the time of COVID-19: a scoping review

As societies evolve, often the most appropriate response to the hazard must also evolve. However, such shifts in appropriate response to a hazard, whether at the individual or at the societal level, are rarely straightforward: Closing the gap between desired practice and current practice requires effective communication. Although there is a significant literature on how to encourage adaptation before an event and how to communicate during an event, there is less work tying the two together or on how to communicate shifts in larger scale societal response to a natural hazard. In this article, we bring together the best practices and theoretical literature from risk communication and crisis communication and empirical literature on wildfire communication to derive the key characteristics associated with best communication practices. We then use this framework on three case studies of wildfires in California, Montana, and Wyoming, each of which used a different strategy for managing the fire, to understand whether approaching communication more holistically can lead to more desired natural hazard management outcomes. Our working hypothesis was as follows: effective communication before and during a fire would be associated with acceptance of more flexible fire management strategies. The findings indicate how a type of desired management change (more flexible fire management) is associated with more effective communication practices before and during the event.

Best Practices in Risk and Crisis Communication: Implications for Natural Hazards Management

Purpose: It became a fact, and the world's countries went under confinement due to the pandemic of the Covid19 There are severe impacts on tourism with the supply chain experiencing a full pause This research investigates the influence of governance, media coverage, crisis severity, former travel practice and Covid-19 incidences on the perceived risk related to travel and tourism during the pandemic and in cross-countries Design/methodology/approach: We collected the data from a sample of 1845 individuals from more than 12 countries and four continents representing quarantined and most impacted areas in the world in March and April 2020 A multilevel linear model was applied to predict the perceived risk across countries as a level 2 research unit Findings: The finding confirms the clustering in the data with media coverage, governance and crisis growth affecting the outcome There are cross-level interaction effects, as the growth rate of the pandemic per country and media coverage impact tourists' perception of risk Finally, there are lower-level direct effects, with lower-level variables affecting tourists' perceived risks Research limitations/implications: The survey is randomly administered online due to the nearly complete quarantine implemented in the studied areas Besides, and considering the latter, the responses might have been subjective due to the non-containment of the crisis by the study's time, directing to possible alteration of feelings and responses from respondents This leads to suggest a future extension of this research, similarly, post-crisis Originality/value: This research pinpointed the impacts of predictors, concerning the countries' level, during the crisis phase on the perceived risk Therefore, it gives insights into professional bodies on future concerns to be considered during the recovery phase © 2021, Emerald Publishing Limited

The organizational impact of Covid-19 crisis on travel perceived risk across four continents

Drawing on international experiences, Viroj Tangcharoensathien and colleagues argue that immediate extensive action to contain local transmission of new infectious diseases protects health systems from being overwhelmed

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Are overwhelmed health systems an inevitable consequence of covid-19? Experiences from China, Thailand, and New York State.

Examining risk and crisis communications of government agencies and stakeholders during early-stages of COVID-19 on Twitter

This article explores techniques for estimating Hospital Acquired Infection prevention potential through strategic nursing care delivery design and applied fuzzy frameworks. To achieve this, it eva...

Using a Fuzzy Framework for applying King’s Theory of Goal Attainment to Improve Hospital Acquired Infection Resilience:

The objective of this study is to gain a clearer understanding of the role Persuasive Experience (PX) may play in wellness-oriented Web Based Learning (WBL) platforms in forming abilities to incite...

Validating Persuasive Experience (PX) Theory: Preliminary Results of a Case Study on a Corporate Wellness Program’s Web-based Learning Interfaces

There is a clear imperative to discover ways to deliver usable, clear, and persuasive information that will facilitate personal motivation to adopt self-management behaviors, such as increased physical activity that may stem the rise of behavior sensitive conditions, such as Hypertensive cardiovascular disease. The objective of this study is to gain a clearer understanding of how wellness-oriented Web-based learning platforms may interact with individual states of mind and behavior to motivate sustainable adherence to increased physical activity routines that may improve disease emergence outcomes.

Evaluating Persuasiveness of Corporate Wellness Web-based learning interfaces

The ability to effectively curtail the spread of dangerous disease causing bacteria within care delivery environments is a growing concern with evolving challenges. Current research on inert surfaces role in facilitating microbial spread is becoming more salient [4, 5, 6, 7]. Furthermore, the recognition that infection prevention and pathogen transfer processes reliant on human behavior alone are unsatisfactory to effective mitigation [7, 8]. Using the context and principles of Human Factors and Ergonomics and Resilience Engineering to employ environmentally-based design parameters that improve inherent surface resistance to pathogens could be a key factor to controlling their spread [10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18]. The objective of this article is to compile evidence of emergent alternative strategies in promoting high reliability healthcare delivery system design to better understand how infection prevention surface technology and Human Factors-based moderation can be studied in concert with one another and ultimately leveraged to their greatest effect.

Increasing Patient Safety Through Resilient Design: Using Human Factors Engineering and Environmental Support Mechanisms to Reduce Potentials of Hospital Acquired Infection

Lisa Sundahl Platt

Papers

Examining risk and crisis communications of government agencies and stakeholders during early-stages of COVID-19 on Twitter

Using a Fuzzy Framework for applying King’s Theory of Goal Attainment to Improve Hospital Acquired Infection Resilience:

Validating Persuasive Experience (PX) Theory: Preliminary Results of a Case Study on a Corporate Wellness Program’s Web-based Learning Interfaces

Evaluating Persuasiveness of Corporate Wellness Web-based learning interfaces

Increasing Patient Safety Through Resilient Design: Using Human Factors Engineering and Environmental Support Mechanisms to Reduce Potentials of Hospital Acquired Infection