Pollett Simon, Rivers Caitlin
Viral Diseases Branch, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA.
Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Clin Infect Dis. 2020 Nov 19;71(16):2184-2186. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa553.
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.
2019年冠状病毒病（COVID-19）大流行对人类和社会造成的损失已经催生了一些重大的公共卫生“经验教训”，有效且负责任的科学传播便是其中之一。我们认为，在COVID-19疫情期间，推特在促进科学家之间进行前所未有的大规模实时全球交流方面发挥了重要但往往不稳定的作用。在此，我们讨论在突发公共卫生事件期间通过推特进行科学交流的三个关键方面，包括一些主要弊端。从推特信息流的角度来看，这一讨论也简要介绍了COVID-19疫情初期的一些关键流行病学分析（及其传播情况）。
