Twitter discourse reveals geographical and temporal variation in concerns about COVID-19 vaccines in the United States.

ABSTRACT: The speed at which social media is propagating COVID-19 misinformation and its potential reach and impact is growing, yet little work has focused on the potential applications of these data for informing public health communication about COVID-19 vaccines. We used Twitter to access a random sample of over 78 million vaccine-related tweets posted between December 1, 2020 and February 28, 2021 to describe the geographical and temporal variation in COVID-19 vaccine discourse. Urban suburbs posted about equitable distribution in communities, college towns talked about in-clinic vaccinations near universities, evangelical hubs posted about operation warp speed and thanking God, exurbs posted about the 2020 election, Hispanic centers posted about concerns around food and water, and counties in t

SUBMITTER: Guntuku SC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8188387 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature