The aim of this study is to investigate the awareness-raising activities and the health guidelines for protection from new coronavirus during this pandemic reported on the Ministry of Health website in Saudi Arabia. To achieve this aim, the study employs critical discourse analysis (CDA) of Halliday’s theory of transitivity process types adopted as a framework of news text. Literature showed that discourse analysis is an interdisciplinary area of investigation and an increasingly popular domain strategy for scholars in different fields. However, such a strategy has been little adopted by healthcare researchers. To analyze the transitivity process types (namely material, mental, verbal, relational, behavioral, and existential), quantitative and qualitative approaches were employed to get a better understanding of transitivity process types related to the news texts. Like other studies, the findings revealed that the material process type (60%) highly dominated the discourse in the two news texts. This implies the powerful role of events and actions to be undertaken. Unlike the first news text, the second news text however contains the behavioral process to meticulously highlight public awareness and action. Investigating participants’ roles as well as circumstances components may offer more data appropriate for further research.
The world has taken proactive measures to combat the pandemic since the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak, which was caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). These measures range from increasing the production of personal protective equipment (PPE) and highlighting the value of social distancing to the emergency use authorization (EUA) of therapeutic drugs or antibodies and their appropriate use; nonetheless, the disease is still spreading quickly and is ruining people’s social lives, the economy, and public health. As a result, effective vaccines are critical for bringing the pandemic to an end and restoring normalcy in society. Several potential COVID-19 vaccines are now being researched, developed, tested, and reviewed. Since the end of June 2022, several vaccines have been provisionally approved, whereas others are about to be approved. In the upcoming years, a large number of new medications that are presently undergoing clinical testing are anticipated to hit the market. To illustrate the advantages and disadvantages of their technique, to emphasize the additives and delivery methods used in their creation, and to project potential future growth, this study explores these vaccines and the related research endeavors, including conventional and prospective approaches.
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