id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-342577-sxl4ac0s Li, Yuchen Public awareness, emotional reactions and human mobility in response to the COVID-19 outbreak in China – a population-based ecological study 2020-09-25 .txt text/plain 4340 177 45 title: Public awareness, emotional reactions and human mobility in response to the COVID-19 outbreak in China – a population-based ecological study The alarm phase (19th–26th January) was a restriction-free period, characterized by few new daily cases, but a large amount public negative emotions [the number of negative comments per Weibo post increased by 246.9 per day, 95% confidence interval (CI) 122.5–371.3], and a substantial increase in self-limiting mobility (from 45.6% to 54.5%, changing by 1.5% per day, 95% CI 0.7%–2.3%). The epidemic phase (27th January–15th February) exhibited rapidly increasing numbers of new daily cases, decreasing expression of negative emotions (a decrease of 27.3 negative comments per post per day, 95% CI −40.4 to −14.2), and a stabilized level of self-limiting mobility. In the current study, we aimed to describe dynamic changes in the public's emotional reactions and daily mobility patterns, especially self-limiting mobility patterns, in the Chinese population during the outbreak period of COVID-19 in China. ./cache/cord-342577-sxl4ac0s.txt ./txt/cord-342577-sxl4ac0s.txt