ReconfigBehSci on Twitter: ‘RT @dgurdasani1: The bigger picture is sadly that we’re seeing rapid spread of B.1.617.2 among school age children in many parts of England…’ / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved 16 August 2021, from https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1396887312059944962

Britt, Robert Roy. ‘10 Signs the Pandemic Is About to Get Much Worse’. Medium, 19 October 2020. https://elemental.medium.com/10-signs-the-pandemic-is-about-to-get-much-worse-cf261bf3885d.

the Guardian. ‘How Modelling Covid Has Changed the Way We Think about Epidemics | Adam Kucharrski’, 4 January 2021. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jan/04/covid-model-epidemic-collaboration-experiment.

Dr. Theresa Chapple [@Theresa_Chapple} (2020-07-27) A thread on U.S. #camps and #schools that experienced #COVID19 outbreaks since opening. I'll continually add to this thread as more are reported.Twitter. Retrieved from: https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1288158173438910464

O'Brien. M. [@ObsoleteDogma]. (2020-08-17) It’s almost like bringing college kids back to campus is an exceptionally poor idea that we shouldn’t be trying right now. Twitter. Retrieved from: https://twitter.com/ObsoleteDogma/status/1295158789965066241

Franco-Paredes, Carlos, Nazgol Ghandnoosh, Hassan Latif, Martin Krsak, Andres F. Henao-Martinez, Megan Robins, Lilian Vargas Barahona, and Eric M. Poeschla. ‘Decarceration and Community Re-Entry in the COVID-19 Era’. The Lancet Infectious Diseases 0, no. 0 (29 September 2020). https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30730-1.

Howard Forman {@thehowie} (2020) Amidst many college outbreaks are a slew of very successful schools. My employer, @Yale, is among them: I hope they stay that way. Congrats to the students, faculty, staff, & our community for working together to achieve ZERO positive results in last 7 days. (9,425 tests). Twitter. Retrieved from: https://twitter.com/thehowie/status/1308107599682756609

Krapivsky, P. L. ‘An Infection Process near Criticality: Influence of the Initial Condition’. ArXiv:2009.08940 [Cond-Mat, Physics:Physics, q-Bio], 18 September 2020. http://arxiv.org/abs/2009.08940.

Rigby, Jennifer. ‘Masks, No Assembly and No Choir: The Science behind Reopening Schools Safely’. The Telegraph, 6 August 2020. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/masks-no-assembly-no-choir-science-behind-reopening-schools/.

‘Germany Records Biggest Jump in New Coronavirus Cases since Early May’. Reuters, 12 August 2020. https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-germany-cases-idUKKCN25809X.

Fazackerley, Anna. ‘UK Universities Putting Finances above Student Safety, Expert Warns’. The Guardian, 1 August 2020, sec. Education. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/aug/01/uk-universities-putting-finances-above-student-safety-expert-warns.

Jennifer Gardy discusses the groundbreaking H1N1 crowdsourcing efforts in her TEDx talk here (with lots of lessons for the coronavirus outbreak a decade later) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmAugMSJ1-Y

This reminds me of readings a few weeks back where we learned how social networks are used in giving warnings about public epidemic outbreaks. For example, bird flu. In fact, the SNA is also used for need of a disaster response via social media.