Examining Public Sentiments and Attitudes Toward COVID-19 Vaccination: Infoveillance Study Using Twitter Posts.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A global rollout of vaccinations is currently underway to mitigate and protect people from the COVID-19 pandemic. Several individuals have been using social media platforms such as Twitter as an outlet to express their feelings, concerns, and opinions about COVID-19 vaccines and vaccination programs. This study examined COVID-19 vaccine-related tweets from January 1, 2020, to April 30, 2021, to uncover the topics, themes, and variations in sentiments of public Twitter users.

Objective

The aim of this study was to examine key themes and topics from COVID-19 vaccine-related English tweets posted by individuals, and to explore the trends and variations in public opinions and sentiments.

Methods

We gathered and assessed a corpus of 2.94 million COVID-19 vaccine

SUBMITTER: Chandrasekaran R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9014796 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan-Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature