Pandemic Twitter Updates

March 19, 2020 12:53 PM

My employer is in the thick of the pandemic response. We are 200% focused internally, yet don't want to miss cutting edge information. What are the best accounts to follow for concise and timely updates? I want to specifically use Twitter so we can easily pull the updates into a Slack channel.
posted by sewellcm to Technology (6 answers total)

Check out this previous AskMe, which includes Twitter accounts: Best sources for info about COVID-19
posted by katra at 1:15 PM on March 19, 2020 [2 favorites]

Andy Slavitt.
posted by Winnie the Proust at 1:18 PM on March 19, 2020

Josh Marshall's Covid-19 Twitter List. (Josh is the publisher of Talking Points Memo.)
posted by Winnie the Proust at 1:20 PM on March 19, 2020 [1 favorite]

Response by poster: Thank you katra -- mods if you deem my thread to be redundant based on that answer i apologize for the hasty post. The world is BONKERS.
posted by sewellcm at 1:24 PM on March 19, 2020 [1 favorite]

Response by poster: Another thing that would be helpful / differentiate this ask is to also include how this whole thing is stressing technology supply chains and cloud services.
posted by sewellcm at 1:30 PM on March 19, 2020 [1 favorite]

I think it would be great to keep this Ask up, to help make information more available. And to help reduce extra internet time searching for resources, there is also the MeFi Wiki Disaster Planning & Recovery page, Medical/Pandemic section, which is being regularly updated, especially as resources continue to get posted on Metafilter.
posted by katra at 1:42 PM on March 19, 2020 [1 favorite]