The outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic has brought new opportunities for deeply thinking on the connotation and mutual relations of differing elements of medical communication in terms of content, disseminators, channels, audiences and effects. The main body of medical communication includes medical staff, medical researchers, public health practitioners and medical humanist. Various forms of network media have become the main channels of medical communication. The effect of medical communication depends basically on the authenticity and reliability of the content. The uncertainty of epidemic-related medical risk information and communication status also affects the effect. Overload of information will weaken the communication effect.

COVID-19  /  medical communication  /  medical humanities  /  pandemic information