IOS Press, Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 2022
DOI: 10.3233/shti220265
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The COVID-19 pandemic fueled one of the quickest vaccine developments in history. Misinformation on online social media often leads to negative vaccine sentiment. We conducted a sentiment analysis and Latent Dirichlet Allocation topic modeling from Reddit communities focusing on the COVID-19 vaccine. Polarity analysis suggested these communities expressed positive sentiment regarding the vaccine. However, topic modeling revealed community members mainly focused on the side effects and vaccination experience.