Recent news from The Johns Hopkins University
This section contains regularly updated highlights of the news from around The Johns Hopkins
University. Links to the complete news reports from the nine schools,
the Applied Physics Laboratory and other centers and institutes are to
the left, as are links to help news media contact the Johns Hopkins
communications offices.
By comparing Twitter data from before and after the COVID-19 outbreak, Johns Hopkins University researchers found a profound impact on the movement of Americans – indicating social distancing recommendations are having an effect.
April 6, 2020 Tags: COVID-19, flattening the curve, Johns Hopkins University, Mark Dredze, social distancing, social media, Twitter
| Category: Computer Science, Public Health
Social media posters who share unfounded conspiracy theories and pseudoscientific claims about the Zika virus may undermine upcoming efforts to keep the disease from spreading, according to a study published online today by the journal Vaccine.
May 24, 2016 Tags: conspiracy theories, pseudoscience, social media, vaccination, vaccines, Zika virus
| Category: Computer Science, Engineering, Medicine and Nursing, Public Health, Technology
In recent years, Johns Hopkins researchers have shown that tweets can help trace nationwide trends in flu outbreaks. Now, in a new study, a team from Johns Hopkins and George Washington universities has drilled even deeper, probing flu-related tweets from a single bustling metropolis: New York City. Twitter data, the team concluded, can accurately gauge the spread of flu at the local level, too.
March 18, 2014 Tags: flu, New York City, social media, tweets, Twitter
| Category: Engineering, Public Health, Technology
