COVID-19: Virus or Viral Conspiracy Theories?

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dc.contributor.authorAbaido, Ghada M.
dc.contributor.authorTakshe, Aseel A.
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-01T16:07:59Z
dc.date.available2020-09-01T16:07:59Z
dc.date.issued2020-03-16
dc.descriptionThis article is not available at CUD collection. The version of scholarly record of this article paper is published in American Journal of Biomedical Science & Research (2020), available online at: https://doi.org/10.34297/AJBSR.2020.08.001252en_US
dc.description.abstractA novel coronavirus called SARS-CoV2 has attracted considerable attention in the past three months, unlike its sisters the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), and the disease it causes has been termed “coronavirus disease 2019” (COVID-19). The mortality rate of COVID-19, however, is lesser than that of SARS and MERS. Then why does COVID-19 seem to be a scarier pandemic than any before? Is it a serious virus outbreak or a sort of violence that has perpetrated across communities? The outbreak of the virus itself feels like it’s happening in your own home. This article attempts to understand the reasons for the widespread attention received by COVID-19. To do so, it briefly presents what is known so far about the SARS-CoV2 virus. After that, it explores whether the media has played a role in the widespread and perhaps exaggerated attention directed at COVID-19. At the dawn of 2020, several pneumonia cases were reported in the city of Wuhan, China, that were caused by a novel coronavirus.en_US
dc.identifier.citationAbaido, G. M., & Takshe, A. A. (2020). COVID-19: Virus or viral conspiracy theories. American Journal of Biomedical Science & Research, 8(2). http://dx.doi.org/10.34297/AJBSR.2020.08.001252en_US
dc.identifier.issn2642-1747
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.34297/AJBSR.2020.08.001252
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12519/234
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherBiomedGrid LLCen_US
dc.relationAuthors Affiliations : Abaido, Ghada M. Department of Communication, Arts and Sciences, Canadian University of Dubai, UAE and Takshe, Aseel A. Faculty of Communication, Arts and Sciences, Canadian University Dubai UAE
dc.relation.ispartofseriesAmerican Journal of Biomedical Science & Research;Volume 8 - Issue 2
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
dc.rights.holderCopyright : @ Aseel A Takshe and Ghada M Abaido
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectCOVID-19en_US
dc.subjectnovel coronavirusen_US
dc.subjectSARS-CoV2en_US
dc.titleCOVID-19: Virus or Viral Conspiracy Theories?en_US
dc.typeOpinionen_US

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