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Herd mentality of COVID-19

G10 JaeHyeon Park, WooJin Jung, KiHyun Lee, SeungHee Kim

G11 JeongWon Hwang, GyuSung Lee, DaHyun Nam
G12 SuYeon Lee, SungWon Moon

Supervisor: Ms Gretel Goh
Abstract

The environment is an integral component of human and animal health. COVID-

19 is a global health challenge in the twenty-first century, spread to regional

countries, affecting more than 210 countries worldwide. The COVID-19 pandemic

has enormous impacts on most aspects of human psychology. Thus, it resulted in

people showing unusual activities and others who follow.

When people face a pandemic, they tend to act differently from usual due

to fear. Furthermore, others tend to mimic the unusual actions as if they are a
swarm. To research people’s thoughts, we will be surveying people living in

different parts of the world. Through this research, our group hopes to identify and
understand why some of the activities they take in pandemic situations

1. Introduction

Human civilization probably is passing through the most critical juncture of

this millennium while its existence is being challenged by the emergence of a novel

severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus(SARS-CoV-2) encroaching newer

territories all over the world expeditiously. The 2019 Coronavirus Disease (COVID-

19) outbreak has been declared an international public health emergency on

January 30, 2020, by the World Health Organization (WHO) as the disease, first

reported from China in December 2019, continues to surge through the continents

affecting many countries from Europe, America and Asia severely and is still

widening its burden of disease. A full fragment of the world’s population currently

is primarily restricted to their homes, owing to nationwide lockdowns and home-

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