COVID-19 Vaccine Opinion Analysis - Using Artificial Intelligence for Social Listening and Early Adverse Event Identification

Vaccine hesitancy refers to the reluctance or refusal to vaccinate despite the effectiveness and availability of vaccines. The growing global epidemic of vaccine hesitancy threatens to reverse the worldwide progress made over the past few decades in tackling vaccine-preventable diseases (VPDs). The World Health Organization (WHO) listed vaccine hesitancy as one of the top threats to global health in 2019. The current suboptimal uptake of COVID-19 vaccines across North America, Europe and many other parts of the world (e.g. Hong Kong and Singapore) further highlights the tremendous challenges in overcoming vaccine hesitancy and refusal even in the context of a world-devastating pandemic that has killed more than 3 million people and caused more than US$16 trillion of economic damage worldwide.

Speakers

Enrico Santus