CoVaxxy: A Collection of English-language Twitter Posts About COVID-19 Vaccines

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With a substantial proportion of the population currently hesitant to take the COVID-19 vaccine, it is important that people have access to accurate information.

• However, there is a large amount of low-credibility information about vaccines spreading on social media.
• In this paper, we present the CoVaxxy dataset, a growing collection of English-language Twitter posts about COVID-19 vaccines.
• Using one week of data, we provide statistics regarding the numbers of tweets over time, the hashtags used, and the websites shared.