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          <subject>Authors’ Response to Peer Reviews</subject>
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        <article-title>Authors’ Response to Peer Reviews of “The Exchange of Informational Support in Online Health Communities at the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Content Analysis”</article-title>
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        <contrib contrib-type="editor">
          <name>
            <surname>Meinert</surname>
            <given-names>Edward</given-names>
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          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Jong</surname>
            <given-names>Wesley</given-names>
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        <contrib id="contrib2" contrib-type="author" equal-contrib="yes">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Liang</surname>
            <given-names>Ou Stella</given-names>
          </name>
          <degrees>MHA</degrees>
          <xref rid="aff2" ref-type="aff">2</xref>
          <ext-link ext-link-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9131-1183</ext-link>
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        <contrib id="contrib3" contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Yang</surname>
            <given-names>Christopher C</given-names>
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          <degrees>PhD</degrees>
          <xref rid="aff2" ref-type="aff">2</xref>
          <address>
            <institution>College of Computing and Informatics</institution>
            <institution>Drexel University</institution>
            <addr-line>3675 Market St</addr-line>
            <addr-line>Office 1186</addr-line>
            <addr-line>Philadelphia, PA, 10094</addr-line>
            <country>United States</country>
            <phone>1 267 648 4077</phone>
            <email>chris.yang@drexel.edu</email>
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        <label>1</label>
        <institution>College of Medicine</institution>
        <institution>Drexel University</institution>
        <addr-line>Philadelphia, PA</addr-line>
        <country>United States</country>
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        <label>2</label>
        <institution>College of Computing and Informatics</institution>
        <institution>Drexel University</institution>
        <addr-line>Philadelphia, PA</addr-line>
        <country>United States</country>
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        <corresp>Corresponding Author: Christopher C Yang <email>chris.yang@drexel.edu</email></corresp>
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      <pub-date pub-type="collection">
        <season>Jul-Sep</season>
        <year>2021</year>
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      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>22</day>
        <month>7</month>
        <year>2021</year>
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      <volume>2</volume>
      <issue>3</issue>
      <elocation-id>e31329</elocation-id>
      <history>
        <date date-type="received">
          <day>21</day>
          <month>6</month>
          <year>2021</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="accepted">
          <day>21</day>
          <month>6</month>
          <year>2021</year>
        </date>
      </history>
      <copyright-statement>©Wesley Jong, Ou Stella Liang, Christopher C Yang. Originally published in JMIRx Med (https://med.jmirx.org), 22.07.2021.</copyright-statement>
      <copyright-year>2021</copyright-year>
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        <p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in JMIRx Med, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on https://med.jmirx.org/, as well as this copyright and license information must be included.</p>
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      <related-article related-article-type="companion" id="preprint27485" ext-link-type="doi" xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.2196/preprints.27485" vol="2" page="e27485" xlink:title="Preprint:" xlink:type="simple">https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/27485</related-article>
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        <kwd>COVID-19</kwd>
        <kwd>health information</kwd>
        <kwd>informational support</kwd>
        <kwd>online health</kwd>
        <kwd>online health communities</kwd>
        <kwd>online platform</kwd>
        <kwd>pandemic</kwd>
        <kwd>social support</kwd>
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    <p>This is the authors’ response to peer-review reports for “The Exchange of Informational Support in Online Health Communities at the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Content Analysis”.</p>
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      <title>Round 1 Review</title>
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        <title>Responses to Editors</title>
        <p>M. Addressed [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref1">1</xref>].</p>
        <p>Q. Addressed.</p>
        <p>U. Addressed.</p>
      </sec>
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        <title>Reviewer AB [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref2">2</xref>]</title>
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          <title>Specific Comments</title>
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            <title>Major Comments</title>
            <p>1. Addressed.</p>
            <p>2. Addressed.</p>
            <p>3. Addressed.</p>
            <p>4. Addressed.</p>
            <p>5. Addressed. What we were trying to convey is that people who offered information were more likely to post more than once judging by their action of responding to others’ information requests.</p>
            <p>6. Emotional support is an interesting topic, but it is out of the scope of this study.</p>
            <p>7. We are unable to address this comment at this moment, as studies on other public health emergencies with comparable findings are limited.</p>
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          <sec>
            <title>Minor Comments</title>
            <p>8. Addressed.</p>
            <p>9. Addressed.</p>
            <p>10. Addressed.</p>
            <p>11. Addressed.</p>
            <p>12. Addressed.</p>
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        <title>Anonymous [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="ref3">3</xref>]:</title>
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          <title>General Comments</title>
          <p>1. Addressed.</p>
          <p>2. We are unable to address this comment at this moment.</p>
          <p>3. Please refer to the <italic>Methodology</italic> section, where previous studies on which our coding ontology is based are cited.</p>
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