COVID19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on the lives of almost everyone on this planet. In this report, we bring the impact of COVID19 vaccines and therapeutics on the population by analyzing the tweets. Because Covid-19 is so prevalent and is associated with major news stories almost weekly we are providing these reports on a weekly basis.
Data collection
Tweets are collected daily. For each topic, a list of related search terms was generated. For example, the topic “Pfizer vaccine” will also search for Comirnaty. At this moment, the tweets do not have to contain Covid-19 to be included, given the outsized presence Covid-19 has in discussions. Not all vaccines and therapeutics were included in this search. Likewise, the search list does not produce a comprehensive list of all tweets discussing the selected Covid-19 topics. The purpose of this data is to demonstrate the quality and quantity of data available in unstructured (text) data and visualize changes over time for the selected topics. Data limitations: The search is primarily English-language sources.
Sentiment analysis
At the time of data collection, the text of each tweet is cleaned and analyzed using Python’s NLTK library. The sentiment is determined using the VaDer algorithm, which was originally trained using Twitter data.
Word-level analysis.
An implantation of TDF-IF using SQL is applied to identify prominent words in tweets that were scored either negative, positive, or neutral within each Covid-19 vaccine or therapeutic topic.
Side effect classifier
10,000 tweets were reviewed for the classifier. Texts were tagged if it was determined that someone was describing a side effect/adverse reaction in the first person.
Latest COVID Vaccine and Therapeutics Twitter Reports
Covid-19 Vaccines & Therapeutics Twitter Report for the month of December, 2022
There were 32,563 unique tweets. The number of tweets on a given day ranged from 453 on Sunday, the 25th to 2,730 on Monday, the 12th. Ivermectin had the most tweets this month with 18,533. Monoclonal antibodies had the fewest tweets this month with 595.
Covid-19 Vaccines & Therapeutics Twitter Report for the month of November, 2022
There were 22,200 unique tweets. The number of tweets on a given day ranged from 378 on Sunday, the 13th to 1,606 on Wednesday, the 23rd. Ivermectin had the most tweets this month with 12,669. Johnson and johnson vaccine had the fewest tweets this month with 492.
Covid-19 Vaccines & Therapeutics Twitter Report for the Week of October 23, 2022
There were 7,632 unique tweets. The number of tweets on a given day ranged from 710 on Thursday, the 27th to 2,145 on Friday, the 28th. Ivermectin had the most tweets this week with 4,811. Johnson and johnson vaccine had the fewest tweets this week with 119.
Covid-19 Vaccines & Therapeutics Twitter Report for the Week of October 16, 2022
There were 4,992 unique tweets. The number of tweets on a given day ranged from 561 on Tuesday, the 18th to 915 on Saturday, the 22nd. Pfizer vaccine had the most tweets this week with 2,166. Monoclonal antibodies had the fewest tweets this week with 156.
Anti-Depressants Twitter report for the week of September 25, 2022
There were 1,908 unique tweets. The number of tweets on a given day ranged from 252 on Sunday, the 25th to 322 on Friday, the 30th. Sertraline had the most tweets this week with 457.
Covid-19 Vaccines & Therapeutics Twitter Report for the Week of September 25, 2022
There were 4,860 unique tweets. The number of tweets on a given day ranged from 442 on Saturday, the 1st to 1,336 on Sunday, the 25th. Ivermectin had the most tweets this week with 2,781. Johnson and johnson vaccine had the fewest tweets this week with 105.
