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Alghalia Al-Mansoori¹, Ola Al Hayk¹, Sharifa Qassmi¹

¹College of Dental Medicine, QU Health, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar.

Journal of Medical Internet Research

|April 3, 2025

Summary

Social media platform X (formerly Twitter) effectively tracked COVID-19 infections and deaths in dental practices. Analysis of X data can predict disease spread and inform public health strategies for pandemics.

Keywords:

COVID-19 Twitter dentistry infection infoveillance patient platform X

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Area of Science:

Public Health Surveillance
Infodemiology
Dental Public Health

Background:

Quantifying the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on dental professionals and patients proved challenging.
Social media platforms, specifically X (formerly Twitter), emerged as valuable tools for global pandemic infoveillance.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the utility of X for monitoring COVID-19 infections and fatalities linked to dental practices.
To assess X as a potential tool for tracking the pandemic's effects on the dental community.

Main Methods:

Collected English tweets from January 2020 to March 2021 reporting COVID-19 infections or deaths in dental settings.
Utilized X Pro (formerly TweetDeck) and an X Academic Research API-based crawler for tweet retrieval.
Employed keyword searches for COVID-19 infection/death events involving dentists, dental staff, and patients.

Main Results:

Analyzed 5,641 tweets, with 1,583 (28.1%) deemed relevant.
Identified 311 infection reports (19.6%), primarily affecting dentists (86.9%) in the US, India, and Canada.
Documented 600 deaths, with dentists comprising 42.2%, mainly in the US, Pakistan, and India.

Conclusions:

X data analysis offers insights into pandemic impact on the dental profession and correlates with infection/death cases.
The platform X demonstrates potential as an early indicator for disease transmission.
Further research is necessary to validate X's role in pandemic surveillance.