As the pandemic progressed, there was a trend toward fewer and fewer signal tweets.

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- only 43% (9051) of the collected tweets were signal (able to be categorized into a domain and subdomain)
- as the pandemic progressed, there was a decrease in trend of signal tweets
-  domains with the most tweets were Prevention and Therapeutics
- even in these communities of medical professionals, there was still a lot of noise diluting information about the pandemic

The COVID-19 Infodemic: The complex task of elevating signal and eliminating noise - results

Desai, T., & Conjeevaram, A. (2021). The COVID-19 Infodemic: The complex task of elevating signal and eliminating noise. medRxiv. https://europepmc.org/article/ppr/ppr269180

The COVID-19 Infodemic: The complex task of elevating signal and eliminating noise

Domains with most tweets were Prevention and Therapeutics, with the least in Pathophysiology. 

The COVID-19 Infodemic: The complex task of elevating signal and eliminating noise - results - table

The COVID-19 Infodemic: The complex task of elevating signal and eliminating noise - results - graph

"Tweets about Prevention were composed at a steady rate from Days 0 to 49 while tweets about Therapeutics peaked on Day 21, approximately seven days before multiple pharmaceutical companies announced vaccine trials"

The most popular subdomain in Prevention is PPE and in Therapeutics is Hydroxychloroquine/chloroquine wwo Azithromycin and Mechanical Ventilation. 

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