Social media and emergency preparedness in response to novel coronavirus

RM Merchant, N Lurie - Jama, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
Now, more than a century later, a novel coronavirus is the cause of a new global pandemic
threatening millions of lives. 1 Today, many methods of sharing information have been
subsumed by giant social media platforms that have incredible speed, reach, and
penetration. More than 2.9 billion individuals use social media regularly, and many for long
stretches of time. 2 Current understanding of how these platforms can be harnessed to
optimally support emergency response, resilience, and preparedness is not well …