Before revision: We identified three distinct phases , which parallel Kuebler-Ross's stages of grief . Each of them is characterized by different regimes of the three social epidemics: in the refusal phase, people refused to accept reality despite the increasing numbers of deaths in other countries ; in the suspended reality phase (started after the announcement of the first death in the country), people' s fear translated into anger about the looming feeling that things were about to change ;
After revision: We identified three distinct phases , which parallel Kuebler-Ross's stages of grief . Each of them is characterized by different regimes of the three social epidemics: in the refusal phase, people refused to accept reality despite the increasing numbers of deaths in other countries . In the anger phase (started after the announcement of the first death in the country), people' s fear translated into anger about the looming feeling that things were about to change ;