Fig. 1: Spread of COVID-19 and issue attention cycle in China.

The line chart showing the government news frequency (solid line, from 0 to 14 pieces per day) and daily death from COVID-19 (dashed line, from 0 to 250 people per day) in China during January 21 to April 21 in 2020. Two news attention phases are divided based on news frequency. China and US daily deaths data from: https://covid19.who.int/region/wpro/country/cn and https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html.