Media Subjugating Public Health amidst Covid-19

Authors: Jaiswal AK*, Chaurasia H and Mishra A

DOI: 10.23880/eij-16000164

Volume 4, Issue 6

Abstract

Sound health is the penultimate source of one’s sustainable existence. However with the widespread of unparalleled pandemic as COVID-19, the negative impact to the health becomes pervasive. Furthermore growing modernization further enhances the likelihood of health influencing factors. One of such factors is “Media”. This article thus seeks to assess and assimilate the impact of media throughout the beginning and the widespread of coronavirus. Media which could turn out to be effective in regulating public health or at least help controlling the widespread in the long run, turned out to be the medium of spreading its aftermaths. While the pandemic’s ill effects continued to grasp everyone, the media too functioned in ways which were far beyond helping. All the efforts that media put in, were rather directed towards their personal gain of popularity and TRP than public welfare. Thus while COVID-19 functioned primarily at affecting the physical health, media in lots of different ways, functioned to affect the mental health.

Keywords: Social Media; COVID-19; Corona-Virus; Lockdown; Depression; Aggression; Mental Health; Public Health

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