Abstract:
Facing the pneumonia epidemic caused by COVID-19, China has launched an emergency response mechanism. The work of epidemic prevention and control has been vigorously and orderly promoted, and major strategic achievements have been made in the current interdiction war of epidemic prevention and control. Emergency science popularization, as an important component of epidemic prevention and control, provides authoritative scientific knowledge to the public in a timely manner, interprets epidemic prevention and control measures, guarantees the orderly development and scientific response of epidemic prevention and control, and plays an important role in effectively curbing COVID-19 and infodemic.This article analyzes the emergency science popularization work in the prevention and control of COVID-19 from the aspects of the organization of the emergency science popularization, the content, media and form of the science popularization. The results show that the emergency science popularization is progressing smoothly, but some problems exist, for example, lack of the mechanism of overall working emergency science popularization, mechanism of content audit, and the lack of daily popular science education. Finally, this article puts forward the following suggestions: to formulate special emergency science popularization laws and regulations, to establish emergency science popularization mechanism and normalization mechanism of emergency science popularization education, and to improve emergency science popularization resource and talent pool.