Distance, diffusion and the role of social media in a time of COVID contagion

On 11 March 2020, The World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic and began announcing global health recommendations to decrease morbidity and mortality. Serendipitously, our team of health and social scientists captured data related to the diffusion of information about COVID-19 and breastfeeding and prompted this commentary. Since December 2019, we have been capturing Twitter data and employing social network analyses to...