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What’s The Twitter Buzz About CoVid by Healthcare Workers
Vidcast: https://youtu.be/sDEjgSu834Y
Comments about CoVid on Twitter are a reflection of what is going through the minds of the public as well as often being misinformation. But what do health care workers think about CoVid. Researchers in the UK and in Canada analyzed 2588 tweets from health care workers about CoVid, Long CoVid, and the public’s reaction to the CoVid challenge looking at the general sentiments and predominant themes.
Nearly all of the words in the tweets, 99.4%, reflected negative sentiments. These comments centered around the rising numbers of cases and hospitalizations, the failure of effective mitigation policies due to lack of public cooperation, and the slow pace of vaccinations, particularly in children. The primary emotions expressed were sadness in 68% of tweets, joy in only 14% related to treatment successes, and fear in 9%.
The predominant themes were: concern for the future in 24% of tweets; concern for child safety in schools in 18%; concerns about the abysmal vaccination progress in 15%; criticisms of ineffective public health policies in 12%; and regrets about the opposition to facemasks in 5%.
Healthcare workers, going all out day in and day out, show frustration with governmental missteps including confusing messaging and lack of public support. We all need to get onboard and support the monumental efforts of our healthcare teams.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.07.20.22277865v1.full.pdf
#CoVid #twitter #healthcareworkers #schools #masking #vaccination
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By Howard G. Smith MD, AM
Vidcast: https://youtu.be/sDEjgSu834Y
Comments about CoVid on Twitter are a reflection of what is going through the minds of the public as well as often being misinformation. But what do health care workers think about CoVid. Researchers in the UK and in Canada analyzed 2588 tweets from health care workers about CoVid, Long CoVid, and the public’s reaction to the CoVid challenge looking at the general sentiments and predominant themes.
Nearly all of the words in the tweets, 99.4%, reflected negative sentiments. These comments centered around the rising numbers of cases and hospitalizations, the failure of effective mitigation policies due to lack of public cooperation, and the slow pace of vaccinations, particularly in children. The primary emotions expressed were sadness in 68% of tweets, joy in only 14% related to treatment successes, and fear in 9%.
The predominant themes were: concern for the future in 24% of tweets; concern for child safety in schools in 18%; concerns about the abysmal vaccination progress in 15%; criticisms of ineffective public health policies in 12%; and regrets about the opposition to facemasks in 5%.
Healthcare workers, going all out day in and day out, show frustration with governmental missteps including confusing messaging and lack of public support. We all need to get onboard and support the monumental efforts of our healthcare teams.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.07.20.22277865v1.full.pdf
#CoVid #twitter #healthcareworkers #schools #masking #vaccination