Department of Biomedical Imaging, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 50603, Malaysia.
Ray Kemp Consulting, Barrington, Cambridge, CB22 7RR, UK.
J Zhejiang Univ Sci B. 2020;21(9):752-754. doi: 10.1631/jzus.B2000228.
The world is now plagued by a pandemic of unprecedented nature caused by a novel, emerging, and still poorly understood infectious disease, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) (Wu and McGoogan, 2020). In addition to the rapidly growing body of scientific and medical literature that is being published, extensive public reports and stories in both the traditional media and social media have served to generate fear, panic, stigmatization, and instances of xenophobia (Zarocostas, 2020).
目前，一种新型的、正在出现且人们对其仍知之甚少的传染病——2019 冠状病毒病（COVID-19），正在引发全球前所未有的大流行。除了科学界和医学界不断涌现大量的科学文献外，传统媒体和社交媒体上也广泛报道了各种公共事件，这引发了人们的恐惧、恐慌、污名化和仇外心理（Zarocostas，2020）。
