Evolving public behavior and attitudes towards COVID-19 and face masks in Taiwan: A social media study.

ABSTRACT: Facing the COVID-19 pandemic, Taiwan demonstrated resilience at the initial stage of epidemic prevention, and effectively slowed down its spread. This study aims to document public epidemic awareness of COVID-19 in Taiwan through collecting social media- and Internet-based data, and provide valuable experience of Taiwan's response to COVID-19, involving citizens, news media, and the government, to aid the public in overcoming COVID-19, or infectious diseases that may emerge in the future. The volume of Google searches related to COVID-19 and face masks was regarded as an indicator of public epidemic awareness in the study. A time-series analysis was used to explore the relationships among public epidemic awareness and other COVID-19 relevant variables, which were collected based on big dat

SUBMITTER: Chin CY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8136722 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature