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Towards using Tweet sentiment for infectious disease detection.

PLoS One · 2025 · PMC12129144 · PMID 40455757

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weakly significantp-values <0.05actually significant
The first time interval is a period of having a weakly significant (p-values <0.05 on most days) positive correlation between tweet sentiment and COVID-19 from March 2, 2020 to June 10, 2020 where as COVID-19 cases increase, tweet sentiment increases.

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a positive trendno p-value reported
In the third period from June 09, 2020 to August 24, 2020, the overall correlation reverts to a positive trend, resembling the first period.

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