Identifying the public's concerns and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's reactions during a health crisis: An analysis of a Zika live Twitter chat

Glowacki, Elizabeth M.; Lazard, Allison J.; Wilcox, Gary B.; Mackert, Michael; Bernhardt, Jay Michael

doi:10.1016/j.ajic.2016.05.025

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“…However, social media can also be used to combat the spread of false information and ignite health advocacy campaigns 30. Many organisations have taken advantage of Twitter’s affordances by responding to questions and concerns raised by the public, such as Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-hosted live Twitter chats responding to the public’s questions about Ebola16 and the Zika virus 31. To date, there is little evidence that individuals with an anti-electronic nicotine delivery systems stance or supporters of e-cigarette regulations have a large presence on social media discussions 32…”

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“…Others have previously found that the largest US non-profits, with few exceptions [21], infrequently use Twitter for stakeholder engagement [22], though this seems to be changing rapidly [23,24]. Given the increasing importance of social media in many people's lives, the lack of social media messaging by public health agencies is a missed opportunity for public engagement.…”

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HIV Cure Goes Viral: An Analysis of HIV Cure #Hashtags from Twitter Around the Mississippi Baby Announcement (Preprint)

Gilbertson¹

2017

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Background: On 3 March 2013, an announcement was made concerning the possible functional HIV cure of the "Mississippi baby" at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Immediately following this announcement, word spread across traditional media outlets, and social media platforms such as Twitter, rousing tremendous public excitement.Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine the frequency, content, and sentiment of HIV cure-related messages (tweets/retweets) on Twitter around the HIV "cure" Mississippi baby announcement on the 3 of March 2013.Methods: We obtained a dataset containing all HIV cure messages between 13 January and 16 May 2013 and conducted qualitative analyses on a 1,111-message sample.Results: A sharp increase (2,786%) in HIV cure-related messages occurred immediately following the announcement. However, this sharp increase only lasted approximately 19 days. Out of our sample of 1,111 messages most were from individuals (68.1%) or news organizations (18.3%), including the single most retweeted post from the BBC (20,047 retweets). 36.6% of these messages were coded as opinion/commentary and 26.7% were coded as news. The proportion of messages with neutral sentiment increased (42.5% to 53.9%; P = 0.003 while the proportion of those with negative sentiment decreased (15.6% to 9.2%; P = 0.01.Conclusions: The Mississippi baby announcement substantially increased HIV curerelated social media messages. Tweets from individuals dominated this platform; messages from public health agencies were relatively under-represented. The increased public attention garnered after the announcement was short-lived. Similar surges in public attention following future HIV cure breakthrough announcements may offer opportunities to reduce negative perceptions of HIV and improve community engagement.

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“…Robust and sustained financial resources and leadership commitment are needed to investigate reservoirs, immune response profile and evolving risk factors of these outbreaks (animal, environment, human interface), and much needed for evidence-based, programmatic and effective mitigation actions to the best extent possible. But also, bolstering digital applications potential and opportunities in accelerating local, national and global capacity development and capabilities to prevent, detect and respond to emerging and future (Zika, Ebola, flu, SARS) viruses threats and outbreaks [15].…”

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“…Maps help identify population displacement and the spread of the disease so that appropriate interventions can be implemented at the right places, at the right times [9,15]. HealthMap has also been used for short term outbreak projections.…”

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“…There is also debate about the use of drones for humanitarian aid purposes, as they may be confused with military practices and war. In fact, articles and media outlets have frequently referred to Ebola using military imagery deeming it as "The War on Ebola" and describing drones as learning machines [15,29]. Ethics of ICT Use for Ebola epidemic humanitarian aid purposes, community engagement, community consultation, engaging community leaders, and transparency are critical to avoid confusion and miscomprehensions and misconceptions, while building trust and resilience [1,20,27].…”

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Digital Technology and Mobile Applications Impact on Zika and Ebola Epidemics Data Sharing and Emergency Response

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Increasing diversified world, era of international power diffusion and regionalisation as the world muddles through travel and trade to climate change requires promoting a more cohesive global regime to ameliorate the deficiencies in local and global 2013-2015 and 2015-2016 Ebola and Zika virus epidemics public health emergency of international concern respectively. Zika epidemics devastating and complex complications exposed the flaws in the global surveillance architecture to deal with cross-border health pandemics prevention and containment. This paper examines trade-off between technology-based data access and dissemination, Zika virus (ZIKV) epidemics complications and digital implications in care delivery solutions in pre-, during and post epidemics response and rebuilding. Our findings showed that IT-based health informatics and mobile applications are evolving and minimum global standards to open access and sharing of relevant epidemics data and information on risk communication. Public awareness and alertness, health promotion and education, counselling and guidelines on integrated syndrome surveillance and response were the most common goals and objectives during viral epidemics reduce and avert further transmission. The uses in healthcare services delivery, management, and planning was also documented and have played a critical role in raising awareness EVD and ZIKV travel restriction and delay pregnancy to women at reproductive age, effective use of personal protective equipment and cultural practices against EVD and ZIKV infections spread. Importantly, IT-based enhanced frontline improved collaborative data sharing and communication, coordinated response and recovery. The efficiency of IT-based data and information sharing and communication practices is of critical benefits for evidence informed early warning, social mobilization, advocacy, monitoring and evaluation capabilities. Mobile-based applications innovations during Zika and Ebola epidemics were very crucial for better evidence-based local and global preparedness and solutions to prevent and control epidemics impacts, promote shared benefits and economic growth.

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Identifying the public's concerns and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's reactions during a health crisis: An analysis of a Zika live Twitter chat

Cited by 106 publications

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Public reactions to e-cigarette regulations on Twitter: a text mining analysis

Public reactions to e-cigarette regulations on Twitter: a text mining analysis

HIV Cure Goes Viral: An Analysis of HIV Cure #Hashtags from Twitter Around the Mississippi Baby Announcement (Preprint)

Digital Technology and Mobile Applications Impact on Zika and Ebola Epidemics Data Sharing and Emergency Response

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