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 |