🦠 Instagram May Offer Clues About the Spread of the Coronavirus
#Instagram is known mainly for stylish selfies and #FOMO-inducing travel pictures. Could the photo-sharing service also be used to track the spread of a pandemic? As governments and health-care providers around the world seek out suspected carriers of the new #coronavirus, the popular social network—which people use to share pictures and videos of places they visit, and more generally to socialise—could prove valuable for tracing the path of the virus.
FOMO: Fear Of Missing Out
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🦅 @PerspectiveIX via the Economist.
#Instagram is known mainly for stylish selfies and #FOMO-inducing travel pictures. Could the photo-sharing service also be used to track the spread of a pandemic? As governments and health-care providers around the world seek out suspected carriers of the new #coronavirus, the popular social network—which people use to share pictures and videos of places they visit, and more generally to socialise—could prove valuable for tracing the path of the virus.
FOMO: Fear Of Missing Out
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🦅 @PerspectiveIX via the Economist.
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