Center for Emergency Care Policy and Research, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Hum Vaccin Immunother. 2021 Sep 2;17(9):2868-2872. doi: 10.1080/21645515.2021.1911216. Epub 2021 May 10.
Widespread SARS-CoV-2 vaccine uptake will be critical to resolution of the COVID-19 pandemic. Politicians have the potential to impact vaccine sentiment and uptake through vaccine-related communication with the public. We used tweets (n = 6,201), abstracted from Quorum, a public affairs software platform, to examine changes in the frequency of vaccine-related communication by legislators on the social media platform, Twitter. We found an increase in vaccine-related tweets by legislators following the arrival of SARS-CoV-2 in the United States. In the pre-COVID-19 era the majority of vaccine-related tweets were generated by Democrat and state senators. The increase in tweets following the arrival of COVID-19, however, was greater among Republican and federal legislators than Democrat or state legislators. This suggests that legislators who were previously less engaged in public discussion of vaccination, became engaged following the arrival of SARS-CoV-2, which may have implications for COVID-19 vaccine uptake among their followers.
广泛的 SARS-CoV-2 疫苗接种将是解决 COVID-19 大流行的关键。政治家通过与公众的疫苗相关沟通有可能影响疫苗的态度和接种率。我们使用了 Quorum（一个公共事务软件平台）中的推文（n=6201），来检查立法者在社交媒体平台 Twitter 上与疫苗相关的沟通频率的变化。我们发现，在美国出现 SARS-CoV-2 后，立法者与疫苗相关的推文数量有所增加。在 COVID-19 之前的时期，大多数与疫苗相关的推文是由民主党和州参议员发布的。然而，在 COVID-19 到来后，共和党和联邦立法者的推文增加幅度大于民主党或州立法者。这表明，以前在公众讨论疫苗接种方面参与度较低的立法者，在 SARS-CoV-2 到来后开始参与讨论，这可能对他们的追随者的 COVID-19 疫苗接种率产生影响。
