Distribution of tweets in the 9 categories. 

"Actions and Recommendations" has the most number of tweets, followed by "Fighting Misinformation."

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- the majority of tweets are from medical professionals from the United States
- 92% of the 10,096 tweets were found to be relevant 
- distribution of tweets in categories: actions and recommendations (28%), fighting misinformation (20%), information and knowledge (9%), health care system (9%), symptoms and illness (8%), immunity (7%), testing (6%), and infection and transmission (5%).
- number of tweets increased as more cases occurred, with tweets about actions and recommendations increasing the most drastically (peaking in March) followed by tweets fighting misinformation 
- medical professionals have been using Twitter to share knowledge with each other and to the public about the COVID-10 pandemic, focusing on topics that tell the public what to do, fighting misinformation, knowledge about infection, symptoms, testing, and the immune system, and concern about the healthcare system and healthcare workers.

Mining Physicians’ Opinions on Social Media to Obtain Insights Into COVID-19: Mixed Methods Analysis - results

Wahbeh, A., Nasralah, T., Al-Ramahi, M., & El-Gayar, O. (2020). Mining physicians’ opinions on social media to obtain insights into COVID-19: mixed methods analysis. JMIR public health and surveillance, 6(2), e19276. https://publichealth.jmir.org/2020/2/e19276/?utm_source=TrendMD&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=JMIR_TrendMD_0

Mining Physicians’ Opinions on Social Media to Obtain Insights Into COVID-19: Mixed Methods Analysis

Majority of tweets are from medical professionals from America.

Mining Physicians’ Opinions on Social Media to Obtain Insights Into COVID-19: Mixed Methods Analysis - results - graph

As time has gone by and cases have increased, so have the number of tweets, with tweets about "Actions and Recommendation" increasing at the greatest rate, followed by tweets "Fighting Misinformation." Tweets also peaked in March, with a smaller spike in January.

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