Sentiment Analysis on USA vs. New Zealand on Health and Safety Mandates During Early Stages of COVID-19 Pandemic.
Stud Health Technol Inform
; 285: 67-75, 2021 Oct 27.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1502263
ABSTRACT
The Coronavirus pandemic has surprised the world and social media was extremely used to express frustrations and development of the cases found. Social media tools, such as Twitter, show a comparable impact with the number of tweets related to COVID-19 indicating remarkable development in a limited ability to focus time. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of Coronavirus on the United States of America (USA) and New Zealand (NZ), and how that is reflected in a sentiment analysis through the examination of American and New Zealand tweets. We have gathered tweets from a March 2020 - August 2020 and used sentiment extraction on the tweets. The major finding of this sentiment extraction is the fact that the overall average sentiment over the 5-month period stayed in a negative range in the USA and NZ. This paper aims to analyze these trends, identify patterns, and determine whether these trends were caused by the COVID-19 pandemic or outside sources. One trend that was analyzed was the spike of COVID-19 results in relation to the number of protests occurring in the USA.
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International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Social Media
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Observational study
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Randomized controlled trials
Limits:
Humans
Country/Region as subject:
North America
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Oceania
Language:
English
Journal:
Stud Health Technol Inform
Journal subject:
Medical Informatics
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Health Services Research
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
SHTI210575
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