Vaping and COVID-19: Insights for Public Health and Clinical Care from Twitter
This study describes key topics of discussions on Twitter at the intersection of vaping and COVID-19 and documents public reactions to announcements from authoritative health agencies. Twitter posts containing vaping and COVID-19-related terms were collected from 1 December 2019 to 3 May 2020 (<i...
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MDPI AG
2021
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| Acceso en línea: | https://doaj.org/article/a11b33bbbc354ba0a2acf16e64f4c374 |
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| Sumario: | This study describes key topics of discussions on Twitter at the intersection of vaping and COVID-19 and documents public reactions to announcements from authoritative health agencies. Twitter posts containing vaping and COVID-19-related terms were collected from 1 December 2019 to 3 May 2020 (<i>n</i> = 23,103 posts). Text classifiers and unsupervised machine learning were used to identify topics in posts. Predominant topics included <i>COVID-19 Respiratory Health</i> (18.87%), <i>COVID-19 Susceptibility</i> (17.53%), <i>Death</i> (10.07%), <i>Other COVID-19 Health Effects</i> (9.62%), and <i>Severity of COVID-19</i> (7.72%), among others. Public conversations on topics, such as <i>Severity of COVID-19</i>, <i>Transmission</i>, <i>Susceptibility</i>, <i>Health Effects</i>, <i>Death</i>, and <i>Smoking cessation</i>, were shaped by announcements from U.S. and international health agencies. Armed with the insights from this study, medical providers should be prepared to discuss vaping-related health risks with their patients in the era of COVID-19. Misconceptions around vaping as a protective behavior from, and an effective treatment against, COVID-19 should also be corrected. |
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