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

  • 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.

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Updated 2021-03-09

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