Public perception of COVID-19 vaccines through analysis of Twitter content and users.

ABSTRACT:

Background

With the global continuation of the COVID-19 pandemic, the large-scale administration of a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine is crucial to achieve herd immunity and curtail further spread of the virus, but success is contingent on public understanding and vaccine uptake. We aim to understand public perception about vaccines for COVID-19 through the wide-scale, organic discussion on Twitter.

Methods

This cross-sectional observational study included Twitter posts matching the search criteria (('covid*' OR 'coronavirus') AND 'vaccine') posted during vaccine development from February 1st through December 11th, 2020. These COVID-19 vaccine related posts were analyzed with topic modeling, sentiment and emotion analysis, and demographic inference of users to provide insight into the ev

SUBMITTER: Saleh SN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10288320 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature