Project

#BeatTheVirus

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Grounded in science, #BeatTheVirus aims to raise awareness of the behaviors we all must adopt to collectively defeat COVID-19.

This effort began in early March 2020 in a conversation between members of the MIT Media Lab and public health experts. They realized the urgent need to bring together fast evolving scientific knowledge of COVID-19 with state-of-the-art social media practices and media analytics to communicate essential information to all. This led to a partnership with McKinsey and New America. Now a growing network of partners have come together to launch #BeatTheVirus, a campaign to raise awareness of the behaviors we all must adopt to collectively defeat COVID-19

Learn more at https://beatthevirus.org/

Research Topics
#social media #covid19