The humanistic story of COVID-19 Communicating the complexity and science of COVID-19: and global health surveillance through innovative digital, new media approaches

The impact of COVID-19 as a global pandemic affected the world from both a health and communication standpoint from which public audiences continue to seek out simple explanations to complex scientific information. According to Budd et al (2020), “digital technologies are being harnessed to support the public-health response to COVID-19 worldwide” to include public communication.