Medical Xpress February 2, 2022
Analysis of social media posts in January 2022 has revealed new insights into stresses on the health system and health workers, the need for fairness and clarity around rules and regulations, and the impact of uncertainty around the course of the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia.
The TIGER C19 project—Timely Integration of user-GEnerated Responses to C19—run collaboratively between Burnet Institute and the University of Melbourne—has combined big data analytics of selected keywords and themes from Reddit and Twitter ever since the onset of COVID-19.
TIGER C19 Co-Lead Investigator, Professor Robert Power AM, and his team, collated and analyzed nearly 30,000 Twitter and Reddit posts from 6 and 7 January which contained six separate keywords relating to current COVID-19-related issues.
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