Affiliation:
1. Senior resident ( Anaesthesia )
2. MBBS student
3. 2 year Postgraduate student
Abstract
The Covid-19 pandemic has struck at a moment when the natural world is more intertwined than ever before. It's the rst pandemic of the digital
era, and never before has it been possible to communicate and stay connected so swiftly during a pandemic.Though physical connectivity has
hastened the disease's spread over the globe due to extensive travel, social media connectivity is a tool that, when utilised properly and judiciously,
can inuence people's behaviour and enhance individual’s and global health.These social media portals may be used to quickly broadcast
signicant new information, relevant new scientic results, discuss diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up protocols, and evaluate alternative
techniques globally, removing potential geographic barriers. Simultaneously, a massive volume of potentially harmful misinformation is
spreading at a faster rate via social media than the disease itself. As a result, it is vital to give timely, reliable, and trustworthy information addressing
critical infection control issues.
In this review, we present the most signicant facts on the impact, benets, and drawbacks of using social networks during the COVID-19
pandemic .
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