Using COVID-19 Vaccine Attitudes on Twitter to Improve Vaccine Uptake Forecast Models in the United States: Infodemiology Study of Tweets.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a global effort to develop vaccines that protect against COVID-19. Individuals who are fully vaccinated are far less likely to contract and therefore transmit the virus to others. Researchers have found that the internet and social media both play a role in shaping personal choices about vaccinations.

Objective

This study aims to determine whether supplementing COVID-19 vaccine uptake forecast models with the attitudes found in tweets improves over baseline models that only use historical vaccination data.

Methods

Daily COVID-19 vaccination data at the county level was collected for the January 2021 to May 2021 study period. Twitter's streaming application programming interface was used to collect COV

SUBMITTER: Sigalo N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10477926 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature