‘A completely new culture of doing research.’ Coronavirus outbreak changes how scientists communicate

Kupferschmidt, Kai

doi:10.1126/science.abb4761

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“…These efforts of Vietnamese scientists were also reported on the official press, for example, Vnexpress on January 30th posted an article entitled, "The first case of nCoV in Vietnam on the world's "medical bible"" [82], introducing the work by [38]. Regarding initiatives of science journalism, the use of preprints to speed up the publishing process has been a focus in the combat against COVID-19 [83,84], for example [20]. This shows the positive signal of the Vietnamese scientific community to move forward with these global trends.…”

Section: Science Journalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Policy Response, Social Media and Science Journalism for the Sustainability of the Public Health System Amid the COVID-19 Outbreak: The Vietnam Lessons

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Having geographical proximity and a high volume of trade with China, the first country to record an outbreak of the new Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), Vietnam was expected to have a high risk of transmission. However, as of 4 April 2020, in comparison to attempts to containing the disease around the world, responses from Vietnam are seen as prompt and effective in protecting the interests of its citizens, with 239 confirmed cases and no fatalities. This study analyzes the situation in terms of Vietnam’s policy response, social media and science journalism. A self-made web crawl engine was used to scan and collect official media news related to COVID-19 between the beginning of January and April 4, yielding a comprehensive dataset of 14,952 news items. The findings shed light on how Vietnam—despite being under-resourced—has demonstrated political readiness to combat the emerging pandemic since the earliest days. Timely communication on any developments of the outbreak from the government and the media, combined with up-to-date research on the new virus by the Vietnamese science community, have altogether provided reliable sources of information. By emphasizing the need for immediate and genuine cooperation between government, civil society and private individuals, the case study offers valuable lessons for other nations concerning not only the concurrent fight against the COVID-19 pandemic but also the overall responses to a public health crisis.

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Section: Science Journalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Policy Response, Social Media and Science Journalism for the Sustainability of the Public Health System Amid the COVID-19 Outbreak: The Vietnam Lessons

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“…This pandemic has also brought to light the importance of open science, data-sharing and new means of communication among members of the scientific community [7][8][9][10]. Numerous data sets are available publicly, alongside literature reviews and preprint articles in bioarxiv and medarxiv portals.…”

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The global impact of the coronavirus pandemic

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Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre-including this research content-immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.

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“…(Campion in Crowe, 2020) Despite all precautions, however, some published articles have already been proven wrong. Published on 31 January, preprint article 'Uncanny similarity of unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV spike protein to HIV-1 gp120 and Gag' (Pradhan et al, 2020) has received "90 critical comments within 48 hours and was swiftly retracted" (Kupferschmidt, 2020); on 14 February 2020, results of the paper were officially debunked in another publication (Xiao et al, 2020).…”

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“…The deluge "has been a challenge for our small teams … [they] are working evenings and weekends." (Kupferschmidt, 2020) This deluge of Covid-19 related articles does not only affect academic editors and publishers; more importantly, it significantly influences researchers and their research. In 2020, researchers looking for Covid-19 related academic articles in non-curated Google Scholar were faced with reading an average of 36 articles per day.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Therefore, it is crucial that philosophers, information scientists, and other experts in knowledge development urgently join medical researchers in our common struggle against this deadly threat to humanity. When a top official from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the agency expects the coronavirus will begin spreading at a community level in the United States, President Trump "responded that U.S. containment of the virus is 'close to airtight' and that the virus is only as deadly as the seasonal flu" (Thielking, 2020 (Kupferschmidt, 2020).…”

Section: The Bioinformationalist Challenge Of Open Sciencementioning

confidence: 99%

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