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Mining Trends of COVID-19 Vaccine Beliefs on Twitter with Lexical Embeddings Results
- 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
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Updated 2021-05-05
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