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

Table 2

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

Date	Topic	Average emotion	Negative proportion (%)
2/5	3694 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 nationwide	0.511	25.05
2/7	3399 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 nationwide	0.564	13.32
2/8	2656 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 nationwide	0.538	14.48
2/14	2641 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 nationwide	0.620	11.24
2/15	2009 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 nationwide	0.646	6.96
2/16	2048 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 nationwide	0.538	15.74
2/17	1886 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 nationwide	0.596	10.90
2/18	1749 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 nationwide	0.654	8.73
2/20	889 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 nationwide	0.580	7.64
2/21	397 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 nationwide	0.534	8.13
2/22	648 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 nationwide	0.530	15.87
2/23	409 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 nationwide	0.537	9.78
2/24	508 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 nationwide	0.527	18.12
2/25	406 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 nationwide	0.576	13.49
2/26	433 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 nationwide	0.460	21.26
2/27	327 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 nationwide	0.630	15.99
2/29	427 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 nationwide	0.538	19.16
3/31	Thirty-one provinces have confirmed 36 new cases	0.482	24.99
4/1	There were 55 new cases of asymptomatic infections	0.530	19.32