Headlines and hashtags: communicating science during an outbreak

Science and medical professionals are often looked to as experts in the event of a health crisis, but relatively few have received formal training in science communication. We provide a brief review of the current outbreak situation and suggestions for engaging in reliable, effective science communi...

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Autores principales: Egbert, Nichole, Goodall, Catherine E., McCullough, Jennifer L., Smith, Tara C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Institut Pasteur. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7422824/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32800961
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.micinf.2020.07.004
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spelling pubmed-74228242020-08-13 Headlines and hashtags: communicating science during an outbreak Egbert, Nichole Goodall, Catherine E. McCullough, Jennifer L. Smith, Tara C. Microbes Infect Commentary Science and medical professionals are often looked to as experts in the event of a health crisis, but relatively few have received formal training in science communication. We provide a brief review of the current outbreak situation and suggestions for engaging in reliable, effective science communication online. Institut Pasteur. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. 2020 2020-08-12 /pmc/articles/PMC7422824/ /pubmed/32800961 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.micinf.2020.07.004 Text en © 2020 Institut Pasteur. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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