Abstract
The human and social toll of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has already spurred several major public health “lessons learned,” and the theme of effective and responsible scientific communication is among them. We propose that Twitter has played a fundamental-but often precarious-role in permitting real-time global communication between scientists during the COVID-19 epidemic, on a scale not seen before. Here, we discuss 3 key facets to Twitter-enabled scientific exchange during public health emergencies, including some major drawbacks. This discussion also serves as a succinct primer on some of the pivotal epidemiological analyses (and their communication) during the early phases of the COVID-19 outbreak, as seen through the lens of a Twitter feed.
Keywords: COVID-19; Twitter; scientific communication; social media.
【저자키워드】 COVID-19, social media, Twitter, scientific communication, 【초록키워드】 coronavirus disease, public health, Coronavirus disease 2019, pandemic, social media, media, COVID-19 outbreak, epidemiological, COVID-19 epidemic, Analysis, not seen, early phase, primer, lens, effective, responsible, 【제목키워드】 communication, New World,