PUBLIC PERCEPTIONS

During the COVID-19 pandemic, people talked a lot about drugs on Twitter. Some of these drugs were approved by the FDA, while others were not. A study looked at over 600, 000 tweets to see what people thought about these drugs. The study found that Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin were talked abou

Scientists have turned to Twitter to figure out what people really think about medicines used to treat COVID-19. They dug through over 600, 000 US tweets from January 2020 to November 2021, focusing on four drugs: Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin, which had some anecdotal support, and Molnupiravir