Toward Using Twitter Data to Monitor COVID-19 Vaccine Safety in Pregnancy: Proof-of-Concept Study of Cohort Identification.

ABSTRACT:

Background

COVID-19 during pregnancy is associated with an increased risk of maternal death, intensive care unit admission, and preterm birth; however, many people who are pregnant refuse to receive COVID-19 vaccination because of a lack of safety data.

Objective

The objective of this preliminary study was to assess whether Twitter data could be used to identify a cohort for epidemiologic studies of COVID-19 vaccination in pregnancy. Specifically, we examined whether it is possible to identify users who have reported (1) that they received COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy or the periconception period, and (2) their pregnancy outcomes.

Methods

We developed regular expressions to search for reports of COVID-19 vaccination in a large collection of tweets posted thro

SUBMITTER: Klein AZ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8734607 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature