Online Public Attention of COVID-19 Vaccination in Mainland China

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Abstract

With the approval of the vaccine in mainland China, concerns over its safety and efficacy emerged. Since the Chinese vaccine has been promoted by the Chinese government for months and got emergency approval from the World Health Organization. The Chinese vaccination program is yet to be identified from the perspective of local populations. The COVID-19 vaccine-related keywords for the period from January 2019 to April 2021 were examined and queried from the Baidu search index. The searching popularity, searching trend, demographic distributions and users’ demand were analyzed. The first vaccine enquiry emerged on 25th January 2020, and 17 vaccination keywords were retrieved and with a total BSI value of 13,708,853. The average monthly searching trend growth is 21.05% (p < 0.05) and was led by people aged 20–29 (39.22%) years old. Over 54.93% of the demand term search were pandemic relevant, and the summed vaccine demand ratio was 44.79%. With the rising search population in COVID-19 vaccination, education programs and materials should be designed for teens and people above the 40 s. Also, vaccine-related birth safety should be alerted and further investigated.

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Jiang, L., Ma, Q., Wei, S., & Che, G. (2022). Online Public Attention of COVID-19 Vaccination in Mainland China. Digital Health, 8. https://doi.org/10.1177/20552076211070454

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