The Onalytica website, which provides influencer marketing softtware, and a list of top health care professionals with influence score rankings was used to identify medical professionals on Twitter. They identified 119 medical professionals for this study who were discussing the COVID-19 pandemic on Twitter. Crimson Hexagon was then used to extract tweets from the identified medical professionals between the dates of December 1,2019 and April 1, 2020. They extracted a total of 10,096 tweets.