Tehran University of Medical Sciences Health Technology Assessment in Action 2645-3835 4 1 2020 10 10 35 35 Mahsa Dalili Shoaei Student Research Committee, Ferdows School of Paramedical and Health, Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand, Iran Meisam Dastani Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran. Gonabad University of medical sciences 2020 07 04 2020 07 14 In late 2019, the epidemic of COVID-19 (Coronavirus 2019) appeared in Wuhan, China, and rapidly spread around the world. Due to this situation, the use of social networks has increased among people. The present study is a narrative review to review studies conducted on the subject of social media and COVID-19 in the Web of Science database. The investigations show that social media has been used to share viewpoints, health care, and distance learning during the COVID-19 crisis. Therefore, governments and experts can use the useful experiences of the application of social media in the spread of the COVID-19 crisis and employ social media to prevent the spread of this epidemic and even in similar future crises. https://htainaction.tums.ac.ir/index.php/hta/article/view/35 https://htainaction.tums.ac.ir/index.php/hta/article/download/35/23