Overbearing Impact of Media on Public Health during COVID-19

Sound health is the penultimate source of one’s sustainable existence. However, with the widespread unparalleled pandemic as COVID-19, the negative impact on health becomes pervasive. Furthermore, growing modernization further enhances the likelihood of health influencing factors. One of such factors is 'Media'. This article thus seeks to assess and assimilate the impact of media throughout the beginning and the widespread of coronavirus. Media that could turn out to be effective in regulating public health or at least help control the widespread in the long run turned out to be the medium of spreading its aftermaths. While the pandemic’s ill effects continued to grasp everyone, the media too, functioned in ways that were far beyond helping. All the media's efforts were directed towards their gain of popularity and TRP than public welfare. Thus while COVID-19 functioned primarily at affecting the physical health, media, in lots of different ways, functioned to affect mental health.