id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-306567-44w6op7p Krittanawong, Chayakrit Misinformation dissemination in Twitter in the COVID-19 era 2020-08-14 .txt text/plain 1255 78 45 (Figure) To our knowledge, this is the first study utilizing Twitter to identify individuals' selfreporting of COVID-19 perceptions and attributions in non-academic settings. Our results demonstrate that Tweets related to the COVID-19 pandemic in non-academic settings may be a valuable source of public health research, especially related to misinformation dissemination. Interestingly, after manual review, we found that Tweets related to the COVID-19 pandemic in non-academic contexts primarily contain unverifiable information or blatant misinformation. Notwithstanding, COVID-19 is an evolving disease, and there has been no robust clinical evidence linking the influenza vaccine and SARS-CoV-2 infection. Third, misinformation regarding the possible mislabeling of influenza or allergy-related deaths or cases as a COVID-19 death or case is relatively common among non-academic Tweets. However, there is no strong evidence to support the claim that patients with allergies, influenza, or asthma are at an increased risk for COVID-19 infection or infection-related death (11) . ./cache/cord-306567-44w6op7p.txt ./txt/cord-306567-44w6op7p.txt