An "Infodemic": Leveraging High-Volume Twitter Data to Understand Early Public Sentiment for the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Outbreak.

Richard J MedfordSameh N SalehAndrew SumarsonoTrish M PerlChristoph U Lehmann

Published in: Open forum infectious diseases (2020)

Twitter is a rich medium that can be leveraged to understand public sentiment in real-time and potentially target individualized public health messages based on user interest and emotion.

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