Background: The COVID-19 has grown into a global pandemic. This study investigated the public psychosocial and behavioral responses through different time periods of the pandemic, and assessed whether these changes are different in age, gender, and region.Methods: A three-phase survey was conducted through the DaDui Social Q&A Software for COVID-19. A total of 13,214 effective responses of COVID-19 were collected. Statistical analysis was performed based on their basic information and psychosocial responses.Results: The degree of attention, understanding, and cooperation with preventive and control measures of the disease increased and then decreased. The panic level gradually increased with the epidemic process. The degree of satisfaction with management measures and of confidence in defeating COVID-19 increased throughout the survey. Compared with residents in other areas, respondents from the COVID-19 epicenter (Wuhan) reported a higher degree of self-protection during the outbreak and a significantly lower degree of satisfaction with respect to government prevention and control measures during all phases. Shortages of medical supplies and low testing capacity were reported as the biggest shortcoming in the prevention and control strategies during COVID-19, and an abundance of disorderly and inaccurate information from different sources was the primary cause of panic.Conclusions and Relevance: Major public health events elicit psychosocial and behavioral changes that reflect the different phases of the biologic curve. Sufficient medical supplies and improved organization and accurate information during epidemics may reduce panic and improve compliance with requested changes in behavior. We need to recognize this natural phenomenon and our public policy preparedness should attempt to move the social/psychological curve to the left in order to minimize and flatten the biologic curve.
Background: To describe the clinical characteristics and the time of nucleic acid turning negative in patients with common type Corona Virus Disease 2019(COVID-19) pneumonia and analyze the treatment time and prognostic factors.Methods: It’s a retrospective analysis of 72 cases of common type COVID-19 pneumonia diagnosed by nucleic acid test and Computed tomography (CT).Results: The average time of nucleic acid test turning negative is 17.37±9.29 days, and the average treatment time was 23.74±8.06 days. There was no influence of Blood leukocyte count, Neutrophil count, lymphocyte count, C-reactive protein (CRP), glutamic-pyruvic transaminase (ALT), glutamic oxalacetic transaminase (AST), creatinine, D-dimer on the prognosis of the patients, whether univariate or multivariate logistic regression analysis. By χ2 test of the drugs and prognosis, we found that oseltamivir may have an impact on the prognosis of patients (P<0.05), while other drugs have no significant impact on the prognosis of patients. Through the correlation analysis, we found that age, the admission temperature, leukocyte count, neutrophil count, CRP were positively correlated with the treatment time of the patients (both P<0.05). Leukocyte count and neutrophil count were positively correlated with the time of nucleic acid test turning negative (both P<0.05).Conclusions: Age, the admission temperature, leukocyte count, neutrophil count, CRP were positively correlated with the treatment time of the patients. Leukocyte count and neutrophil count were positively correlated with the time of nucleic acid test turning negative. Oseltamivir may have an impact on the prognosis of patients, but the detailed role needs further study.
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