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Sentiment Analysis of the Covid-19 Vaccines on Social Media
Chad A. Melton, Olufunto A. Olusanya, Nariman Ammar, Arash Shaban-Nejad
1056 - 1057
10.3233/SHTI220265
Research Article
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
Volume 290: MEDINFO 2021: One World, One Health – Global Partnership for Digital Innovation
Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic fueled one of the quickest vaccine developments in history. Misinformation on online social media often leads to negative vaccine sentiment. We conducted a sentiment analysis and Latent Dirichlet Allocation topic modeling from Reddit communities focusing on the COVID-19 vaccine. Polarity analysis suggested these communities expressed positive sentiment regarding the vaccine. However, topic modeling revealed community members mainly focused on the side effects and vaccination experience.

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