What The Study Did: In this study that included more than 281,000 tweets from 2009 to 2020, top hospitals in the United States didn't communicate a high level of support for the Black community or topics related to social justice. Only four tweets related to the Black Lives Matter movement predated the killing of George Floyd.
Authors: Yulin Hswen, M.P.H., Sc.D., of the University of California, San Francisco, is the corresponding author.
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