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Harnessing Twitter data to survey public attention and attitudes towards COVID-19 vaccines in the UK

Abstract:

Attitudes to COVID-19 vaccination vary considerably within and between countries. Although the contribution of socio-demographic factors to these attitudes has been studied, the role of social media and how it interacts with news about vaccine development and efficacy is uncertain. We examined around 2 million tweets from 522,893 persons in the UK from November 2020 to January 2021 to evaluate links between Twitter content about vaccines and major scientific news announcements about vaccines....

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Peer reviewed

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10.1038/s41598-021-02710-4

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MSD
Department:
Psychiatry
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Publisher:
Springer Nature Publisher's website
Journal:
Scientific Reports Journal website
Volume:
11
Issue:
1
Article number:
23402
Publication date:
2021-12-14
Acceptance date:
2021-11-16
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2045-2322
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English
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1226072
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pubs:1226072
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2021-12-20

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