Open AccessInformation and political aspects of the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States
Author(s) -
Pavel G. Koshkin
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
puti k miru i bezopasnosti
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2311-5238
pISSN - 2307-1494
DOI - 10.20542/2307-1494-2020-2-120-132
Subject(s) - pandemic , covid-19 , politics , political science , coronavirus , public relations , public administration , outbreak , economic growth , virology , medicine , law , economics , infectious disease (medical specialty) , disease , pathology
The COVID-19 pandemic became the main catalyst of the so-called infodemic in the sphere of public information and communications. The article is an attempt to systematize and conceptualize informational and political aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. First, the author explains how the Trump administration responded to the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States both domestically and internationally and how it presented its anti-coronavirus policy to the public. Second, the article analyzes the role of journalists, experts and politicians in instigating or curbing the COVID-19-driven ― infodemic‖ in the United States as coronavirus paved the way for global spread.