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Background: With more and more countries entering the phase of COVID-19 low transmission, there is an urgent need to study the implementation of community prevention in this stage. This study investigated the implementation of community prevention measures in China and whether residents consent they have adequate community protection during the Spring Festival of 2021, with exploring the differences in the sense of security caused by different measures.Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted in China from 4 to 26 February 2021. Convenient sampling strategy was adopted to recruit participators. Participants were asked to filled out the questions that assessed questionnaire on the implementation of community protection and residents' perception. Descriptive statistics were used to assess the public's attitudes. A binary logistic regression analysis was performed to identify the risk factors affecting the residents' attitudes.Results: A total of 2,361 residents filled out the questionnaire. The results showed 24.95% of community/village issued personal protective equipment, 62.98% implemented epidemic screening , and 46.59% implemented health propaganda and education of COVID-19. For people outside the community/village entering the community/village, 19.78% of community/village implemented that appointment of people are admitted, 4.57 implemented that only occupants are admitted. 1910 (80.90%) of residents agreed they acquire adequate community prevention during the Spring Festival. In addition, age of residents, “personal protective equipment will been issued by the community/village”, “resident epidemic screening is implemented by the community/village”, “health propaganda and education of COVID-19 is implemented by the community/village”, “appointment of people are admitted can enter the community/village”, “be satisfied with regularly cleaning and disinfecting by the community/village”, and “be satisfied with community service” were the mainly factors associated with residents’ attitudes.Conclusions: This research is based on an innovative perspective to explore whether residents perceive themselves to be adequately protected after experiencing measures; at the same time, the differences in the sense of security brought to residents by various measures were discussed, which can provide a reference for Chinese and global public health policy makers.
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COVID-19ABSTRACT
Background: On 12 March, the World Health Organization Director-General declared that "the threat of a global pandemic has become a reality", and the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, known as COVID-19, has become a global concern. Chinese efforts in curbing the virus have widely been recognized. Even the WHO has lauded the efforts of the Chinese government and advised the world to learn from China in fighting the disease. Since the outbreak of COVID-19, to curb the spread of the epidemic, the Chinese government has implemented unprecedented prevention interventions at the nationwide level. Currently, the outbreak in Wuhan is changing in a positive direction and has been effectively controlled. However, it is not clear what these measures were and how these measures changed to curb the outbreak of COVID-19 quickly. This study explored the characteristics and identified that China's control strategies have changed the epidemiological curve of rapidly rising new confirmed cases of COVID-19. This study also seeks to expand the experiences and lessons from this outbreak. Methods: We collected public health interventions measures from Jan 20, 2020, to 5 March 2020, and data from COVID-19 daily newly confirmed cases and daily cumulates cases to compare the control effects and changing trends. We performed a retrospective description of these intervention strategies from three stages. Besides, from the perspective of public health, the experiences and lessons exposed by this outbreak were roughly summarized. Results: These non-pharmacology interventions measures adopted by the Chinese government by the instruction and spirit of President Xi Jinping were timely and efficient. Conclusions: The present study was conducted to comprehensively analyze from a social epidemiology context. The results confirmed that these radical interventions taken by the Chinese government were effective, ambitious, and agile. However, we must be aware that the epidemic situation in Wuhan is still challenging. Keywords: China; COVID-19; intervention measures; change features, lessons
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COVID-19ABSTRACT
Background: Since the new coronavirus epidemic in China in December 2019, information and discussions about COVID-19 have spread rapidly on the Internet and have quickly become the focus of worldwide attention, especially on social media. Objective: This study aims to investigate and analyze the public's attention to COVID-19-related events in China at the beginning of the COVID-19 epidemic in China (December 31, 2019, to February 20, 2020) through the Sina Microblog hot search list. Methods: We collected topics related to the COVID-19 epidemic on the Sina Microblog hot search list from December 31, 2019, to February 20, 2020 and described the trend of public attention on COVID-19 epidemic-related topics. ROST CM6.0 (ROST Content Mining System Version 6.0) was used to analyze the collected text for word segmentation, word frequency, and sentiment analysis. We further described the hot topic keywords and sentiment trends of public attention. We used VOSviewer to implement a visual cluster analysis of hot keywords and build a social network of public opinion content. Results: The study has four main findings. First, we analyzed the changing trend of the public's attention to the COVID-19 epidemic, which can be divided into three stages. Second, the hot topic keywords of public attention at each stage are slightly different. In addition, the emotional tendency of the public toward the COVID-19 epidemic-related hot topics has changed from negative to neutral, with negative emotions weakening and positive emotions increasing as a whole. Finally, we divided the COVID-19 topics with the most public concern into five categories: (1) new COVID-19 epidemics and their impact; (2) frontline reporting of the epidemic and prevention and control measures; (3) expert interpretation and discussion on the source of infection; (4) medical services on the frontline of the epidemic; and (5) focus on the global epidemic and the search for suspected cases. Conclusions: This is the first study of public attention on the COVID-19 epidemic using a Chinese social media platform (i.e., Sina Microblog). Our study found that social media (e.g., Sina Microblog) can be used to measure public attention to public health emergencies. During the epidemic of the novel coronavirus, a large amount of information about the COVID-19 epidemic was disseminated on Sina Microblog and received widespread public attention. We have learned about the hotspots of public concern regarding the COVID-19 epidemic. These findings can help the government and health departments better communicate with the public on health and translate public health needs into practice to create targeted measures to prevent and control the spread of COVID-19. Keywords: COVID-19; Sina Microblog; Public attention; Social media; China; Public health emergency