Twitter study tracks early days of COVID-19 pandemic in U.S.

The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on our society are only starting to be understood and will be studied for decades to come, but social media can offer an early glimpse. A preliminary new study from Arti Ramesh and Anand Seetharam—both assistant professors in the Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science's Department of Computer Science—looks at a snapshot of the U.S. coronavirus response on Twitter.