Context

The 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic is an ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_coronavirus_pandemic.

Content

A dataset encompassing all 119,083 mentions of "coronavirus", "covid" and "virus" on a set of major television news stations from January 1, 2020 through the morning of March 10, 2020 using data from the Internet Archive's Television News Archive. Each mention includes the URL of the matching 15 second clip on the Archive's website, the time and date of the match in UTC, the station and show it appeared on, its unique Internet Archive identifier and a preview thumbnail image of the one-minute period containing the clip and the 15 second clip of the spoken word transcript containing the mention, allowing you to understand the context of the mention and the surrounding language.

Acknowledgements

Data from the GDELT project (https://www.gdeltproject.org/) was released under an open license.

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