During the crisis of Coronavirus pandemic, social media, like Twitter, have been the platforms on which people have been able to share their opinions and obtain information. The present study provides a detailed spatial-temporal analysis of the Twitter online discourse (approximately 280 thousand tweets) in Ohio and Michigan at the early stage of vaccination rollout (January 2021, till March 2021). This work aims to explore how people were feeling about the pandemic, the most frequent topics people were talking about, and how the topics spatially were distributed.
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