Being vulnerable with viewers: Exploring how medical YouTubers communicated about COVID-19 with the public

• Seung Woo Chae ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: seuchae@ttu.edu

  Affiliation Department of Journalism and Creative Media Industries, College of Media and Communication, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9068-2575

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• Noriko Hara,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1915-1434

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• Harshit Rakesh Shiroiya,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization

  Affiliation Medpace, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

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• Janice Chen,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences in the College of Arts & Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America

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• Ellen Ogihara

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Sporecyte, Orem, Utah, United States of America

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