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. 2021 Nov 29;21:2181. doi: 10.1186/s12889-021-12246-x

Table 2.

Distribution of news stories written by specialist and non-specialist reporters. Topics: Travel, quarantine and isolation (TQI); EM (Epidemiological models); Facemasks (FM); Testing (TT); Social distancing (SD); Airborne Transmission (AT)

Topic Specialist Non-specialist Columnist Editorial medical expert Wire N/A Total
TQI 7 165 15 6 2 26 1 222
EM 19 102 15 3 3 5 1 148
FM 31 218 44 6 13 62 0 374
TT 10 69 3 1 4 19 0 106
SD 16 177 30 5 8 17 2 255
AT 5 24 3 0 2 4 0 38
Total 88 755 110 21 32 133 4 1143