Many expected federal public health agencies to provide timely and accurate information about the COVID-19 pandemic. That did not happen. In response, physicians and epidemiologists have explored new ways to educate the public about COVID-19 and protect against misinformation. One genre that has received significant uptake is the tweetorial, threaded tweets that educate followers on technical matters. This article builds on prior genre studies of the tweetorial to explore how #MedTwitter and #EpiTwitter communities have refashioned the emerging conventions of the tweetorial as part of efforts to protect the public from COVID-19 misinformation.

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关于 COVID-19 的错误信息接种和扫盲支持推文

许多人希望联邦公共卫生机构能够及时提供有关 COVID-19 大流行的准确信息。那没有发生。作为回应，医生和流行病学家探索了新的方法来教育公众了解 COVID-19 并防止错误信息。一种获得大量采用的类型是推特，线程推文，就技术问题对追随者进行教育。本文以推文先前的体裁研究为基础，探讨 #MedTwitter 和 #EpiTwitter 社区如何重塑推文的新兴惯例，作为保护公众免受 COVID-19 错误信息的努力的一部分。