In the US, there is a positive correlation between contentment and faith in the vaccine and the anxiety and urgency associated with actually getting the vaccine 

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- By comparing words in the misinformation and hesitation categories, it was discovered that there is a lot of doubt and uncertainty surrounding the vaccines 
- Similar trends in the rise of hesitation and misinformation were observed in all 5 countries
- Changes in sentiments were observed towards the end of 2020 when more information regarding COVID-19 vaccines were released
- In most cases, misinformation increased with increased vaccine rollouts
- More information about symptoms and side effects of the vaccine significantly contributes to negative sentiments regarding the vaccine, especially in the hesitation category

Mining Trends of COVID-19 Vaccine Beliefs on Twitter with Lexical Embeddings Results

Chopra, H., Vashishtha, A., Pal, R., Tyagi, A., & Sethi, T. (2021). Mining Trends of COVID-19 Vaccine Beliefs on Twitter with Lexical Embeddings. arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.01131. https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.01131

Mining Trends of COVID-19 Vaccine Beliefs on Twitter with Lexical Embeddings

Comparative analysis on the hesitancy category indicated that there are significant differences in emotions towards COVID-19 vaccine between the 5 countries of interest 

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