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cord-330951-k54e3lbu	Pollett, S	Social media and the new world of scientific communication during the COVID19 pandemic	2020-05-12		.txt	text/plain	813	49	51	The human and social toll of the COVID19 pandemic has already spurred several major public health 'lessons learned', and the theme of effective and responsible scientific communication is among them. This discussion also serves as a succinct primer on some of the pivotal epidemiological analyses (and their communication) during the early phases of the COVID19 outbreak, as seen through the lens of a Twitterfeed. The expansion of the outbreak has demanded a rapid response from public health authorities; fundamental epidemiological and scientific evidence has been acquired at break-neck speed to support those decisions. We propose that Twitter has played a fundamental -but often precarious -role in permitting real-time global communication between scientists during the COVID19 epidemic, on a scale not seen before. This discussion also serves as a succinct primer on some of the pivotal epidemiological analyses (and their communication) during the early phases of the COVID19 outbreak, as seen through the lens of a Twitter-feed.	./cache/cord-330951-k54e3lbu.txt	./txt/cord-330951-k54e3lbu.txt