"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"

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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

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

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

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

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