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JMIR Theme Issue: COVID-19 Special Issue (2457) Infodemiology and Infoveillance (1360) Medicine 2.0: Social Media, Open, Participatory, Collaborative Medicine (1656) Outbreak and Pandemic Preparedness and Management (1737) Theme Issue: Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Outbreak Rapid Reports (1519)

Published on in Vol 22, No 11 (2020): November

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/22152, first published .
Concerns Expressed by Chinese Social Media Users During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Content Analysis of Sina Weibo Microblogging Data

Concerns Expressed by Chinese Social Media Users During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Content Analysis of Sina Weibo Microblogging Data

Concerns Expressed by Chinese Social Media Users During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Content Analysis of Sina Weibo Microblogging Data

Authors of this article:

Junze Wang1, 2 Author Orcid Image ;   Ying Zhou1, 2 Author Orcid Image ;   Wei Zhang3 Author Orcid Image ;   Richard Evans4 Author Orcid Image ;   Chengyan Zhu5 Author Orcid Image
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