Coronavirus: The Most Essential People On Twitter To Follow During The COVID-19 Outbreak

What’s true, and what’s not? Who should you believe, and who shouldn’t you? The coronavirus outbreak has much of America asking itself these questions. Here’s a list of doctors, officials and researchers who have answers, facts and stiff upper lips. And where we could, we asked them to suggest more like-minded people to follow. We’ll update as their responses come in.

(H/T to my colleagues Alex Knapp and Leah Rosenbaum for helping put this roster together.)  

Isaac Bogoch

A.K.A.: @bogochisaac

Bonafides: Clinician investigator, Toronto General Hospital Research Institute

Who He Follows: @mackayIM, @aetiology, @adamjkucharski

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Sue Desmond-Hellmann

A.K.A.: @SueDHellmann

Bonafides: Former CEO, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

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Tom Frieden

A.K.A.: @DrTomFrieden

Bonafides: President and CEO, Resolve to Save Lives; former CDC director

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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

A.K.A.: @DrTedros

Bonafides: Director general, World Health Organization

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Scott Gottlieb

A.K.A.: @ScottGottliebMD

Bonafides: Former FDA commissioner

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Tom Inglesby

A.K.A.: @T_Inglesby

Bonfides: Director, Center for Health Security at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Who He Follows: @mlipsitch, @trvrb, @cmyeaton, @kakape, @HelenBranswell, @ScottGottliebMD,

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Ashish Jha

A.K.A.: @ashishkjha

Bonafides: Director, Harvard Global Health Institute

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Jeremy Konyndyk

A.K.A.: @JeremyKonyndyk

Bonafides: Senior policy fellow, Center for Global Development

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Florian Krammer

A.K.A.: @florian_krammer

Bonafides: Professor, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

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Marc Lipsitch

A.K.A.: @mlipsitch

Bonafides: Director, Harvard’s Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics

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Nancy Messonnier

A.K.A.: @DrNancyM_CDC

Bonafides: Director, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases

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Michael Mina

A.K.A.: @michaelmina_lab

Bonafides: Assistant professor, epidemiology and immunology, Harvard School of Public Health

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Vincent Racaniello

A.K.A.: @profvrr

Bonafides: Assistant professor, epidemiology and immunology, Harvard School of Public Health

Who He Follows: @Baric_Lab, @MattFrieman, @DenisonLab, @drSteveMorse, @weisssr,

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Steffanie Strathdee

A.K.A.: @chngin_the_wrld

Bonafides: Associate dean of global health, University of California San Diego

Who She Follows: @Laurie_Garrett, @sciencecohen, @CarlosdelRio7, @DrNeeltje, @arimoin, @aslavitt, @UWVirology, @angie_rasmussen, @trvrb, @MackayIM, @VirusesImmunity

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Tara C. Smith

A.K.A.: @aetiology

Bonafides: Professor, Kent State University

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