Modeling and Simulating Online Panic in an Epidemic Complexity System: An Agent-Based Approach

Table 1

The emotional score distribution of comments corresponding to different stages of increasing transmission of COVID-19.

Date	Topic	Average emotion	Negative proportion (%)
1/21	440 confirmed cases of COVID-19	0.630	14.76
1/22	571 confirmed cases of COVID-19	0.538	15.74
1/23	830 confirmed cases of COVID-19	0.482	19.14
1/26	2,744 confirmed cases and 80 deaths	0.430	18.10
1/27	The total number of confirmed cases nationwide has increased to 4515	0.396	23.01
1/28	The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 exceeds that of SARS	0.368	25.62
1/29	1737 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 nationwide and total 11791 cases	0.405	17.18
1/31	2102 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 nationwide	0.426	22.02
2/4	3887 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 nationwide	0.369	29.15