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

Table 5

Granger causality results for semiprivatized commercial media and confirmed cases.

Topics	Semiprivatized commercial media ⟶ confirmed cases	Confirmed cases ⟶ semiprivatized commercial media
Pandemic notifications	3.07^∗∗	4.13^∗∗
Treatment on patients	13.28^∗∗	0.76
Methods for pandemic prevention	5.42^∗∗	2.75^∗∗
Scientific knowledge	5.30^∗∗	5.31^∗∗
Social assistance	9.25^∗∗	5.87^∗∗
Work resumption	NA	NA
International pandemic situation	1.45	1.33
Propaganda and mobilization	3.44^∗∗	0.99

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.