Analysis of tweets discussing the risk of Mpox among children and young people(medrxiv.org)
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Analysis of tweets discussing the risk of Mpox among children and young people
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.05.11.23289839v1
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But your better wording would mean you can't discount the advice of real public health experts! Not on monkey pox or other issues!
"First, the author and biography of each tweet was viewed and immediately excluded unless at least one of the following set of credentials was met: MD, DO, nurse, pharmacist, physical therapist, other health care provider, PhD, MPH, other Ed. degree, JD, health/medicine reporter/journalist/columnist/expert, public policy reporter (students or candidates of these professions were also included)."
Yet the conclusion is:
"This finding may have major and widespread societal ramifications attributable to inappropriately heightened anxiety, and subsequent loss of trust. Those seeking health information from Twitter should be aware of our documented high rates of inaccuracy even from the accounts of credentialed health professionals."
I think something does not match regarding the last sentence; it might be better worded as "from suspected accounts of credentialed health professionals, among which may be charlatans and many others impersonating as health professionals".