Published on in Vol 22, No 8 (2020): August

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/21143, first published .
Cross-Country Comparison of Public Awareness, Rumors, and Behavioral Responses to the COVID-19 Epidemic: Infodemiology Study

Cross-Country Comparison of Public Awareness, Rumors, and Behavioral Responses to the COVID-19 Epidemic: Infodemiology Study

Cross-Country Comparison of Public Awareness, Rumors, and Behavioral Responses to the COVID-19 Epidemic: Infodemiology Study

Zhiyuan Hou   1, 2 , PhD ;   Fanxing Du   1 , MPH ;   Xinyu Zhou   1 , BSc ;   Hao Jiang   1 , BSc ;   Sam Martin   3 , PhD ;   Heidi Larson   4, 5 , PhD ;   Leesa Lin   4 , PhD

1 School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

2 Global Health Institute, NHC Key Laboratory of Health Technology Assessment, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

3 Centre for Clinical Vaccinology and Tropical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

4 Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

5 Department of Health Metrics Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States

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  • School of Public Health
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