December 29, 2020
Newsy looked into how scientists are using Twitter and TikTok to debunk misinformation, sometimes coming even from fellow scientists.
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Meet 2020’s social media influencers. Epidemiologists and doctors are taking to Twitter and TikTok to fight COVID mis- and dis-information. Coming from politicians, conspiracy theorists, and even well-intentioned fellow scientists. There s no easy way to disentangle misinformation and disinformation with with COVID, says Ellie Murray, assistant professor of epidemiology at Boston University School of Public Health.
Dr. Murray is one of the epidemiologists gaining traction for her tweetorials - explanatory twitter threads filled with graphs and data. She’s gained over 55,000 followers since March.
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Originally published on December 22, 2020 5:17 pm
As Thanksgiving approached, Americans were bombarded with warnings that holiday travel and gatherings would bring a surge on top of a surge setting the country on a precarious path as it entered the next round of holidays in late December.
Three weeks later, many places are now contending with a wave of infections that local health authorities say were fueled by the Thanksgiving holiday, although some regions appear to have evaded a dramatic rise, at least so far. We are seeing a tremendous surge in cases in many locations around the United States that are associated with the Thanksgiving dinners, family get-togethers and social events, says Michael Osterholm, an epidemiologist and director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota.
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A traveler adjusts her mask while waiting to check in for her flight at the Los Angeles International Airport on Nov. 23. Jae C. Hong/AP
As Thanksgiving approached, Americans were bombarded with warnings that holiday travel and gatherings would bring a surge on top of a surge setting the country on a precarious path as it entered the next round of holidays in late December.
Three weeks later, many places are now contending with a wave of infections that local health authorities say were fueled by the Thanksgiving holiday, although some regions appear to have evaded a dramatic rise, at least so far.
As Christmas Nears, Virus Experts Look for Lessons From Thanksgiving Bryan Denton for The New York Times SANTA BARBARA, Calif. More than three weeks after Thanksgiving, epidemiologists and local health officials across the country are picking apart the holiday, seeking signs of the pandemic’s latest riddle: the Thanksgiving effect. In the days before Thanksgiving on Nov. 26, infectious-disease experts and elected officials repeatedly warned Americans to limit their travel and family gatherings, fearing the holiday would turn into a nationwide super-spreader event. But experts and data suggest what happened was something like a micro-spreader, more a tornado picking its spots than a hurricane blowing down everything in its path.
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