Media coverage leads to an increase in ‘panic buying’

Photo: Kevin Sanchez Farez

Supermarkets are painted as battlegrounds, and supplies are framed as a scare. While the coronavirus pandemic’s impact is newsworthy, if done without care, it can also lead to wide-spread panic in local communities.

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