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Public Perception of COVID-19 Vaccines through Analysis of Twitter Content and Users Discussion

  • Overall, there were significantly more tweets associated with positive than negative sentiments and the main emotion associated with the tweets was trust
  • Tweets from individual accounts contained more fear and less anticipation and trust compared to organizational accounts
  • Women showed more fear and less anticipation
  • Users over the age of 40 were more fearful and put less trust in the vaccines and vaccine development
  • 20% of the tweets contained elements of fear towards getting the vaccine, even though there are a lot more tweets with positive sentiments and the emotion of trust

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Updated 2021-05-10

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