Intermedia Agenda Setting amid the Pandemic: A Computational Analysis of China’s Online News

Table 4

Granger causality results for official media and confirmed cases.

Topics	Official media ⟶ confirmed cases	Confirmed cases⟶ official media
Pandemic notifications	3.97^∗∗	2.87^∗∗
Treatment on patients	2.87^∗∗	6.22^∗∗
Methods for pandemic prevention	3.07^∗∗	1.76
Scientific knowledge	3.46^∗∗	1.85
Social assistance	18.52^∗∗	7.89^∗∗
Work resumption	0.58	0.14
International pandemic situation	1.39	1.40
Propaganda and mobilization	1.70	1.95

Note. The Granger causality tests documented in the table are based on F distributions for significance. N/A indicates that at least one of the time series tested was not stationary ^∗p < .05, ^∗∗p < .01.