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. 2021 Mar 25;17(8):2373–2377. doi: 10.1080/21645515.2021.1894896

Table 1.

Characteristics and content of 100 trending TikTok videos related to COVID-19 vaccinations

  Count
Video Views
Video Likes
Video Comments
  100 35,338,600 % 5,443,223 % 119,004 %
Discouraged a Vaccine 38 14,008,600 39.64% 2,411,488 44.30% 56431 47.42%
Encouraged a Vaccine 36 17,964,700 50.84% 2,622,820 48.19% 47,203 39.67%
Falsely Claims Vaccine Availability for Public Uptake 31 15,195,600 43.00% 2,070,254 38.03% 53,300 44.79%
Parody/Meme of an Adverse Reaction 26 11,255,900 31.85% 1,557,844 28.62% 41,075 34.52%
Vaccine Development Process 23 13,859,000 39.22% 2,013,108 36.98% 33,857 28.45%
Specific Company Identified 17 5,566,600 15.75% 1,159,267 21.30% 15,032 12.63%
Trial Volunteers 13 6,994,800 19.79% 801,485 14.72% 19,415 16.31%
Human Trial 11 5,860,500 16.58% 704,115 12.94% 14,879 12.50%
Manufacturing Process and/or Cost 9 7,166,600 20.28% 1,129,634 20.75% 17,994 15.12%
Dosing 7 3,345,100 9.47% 443,033 8.14% 10,031 8.43%
Length of Time to Develop 6 4,259,700 12.05% 536,149 9.85% 11,193 9.41%
Vaccine Being Fast-Tracked 4 2,163,000 6.12% 260,004 4.78% 7,126 5.99%
COVID is a Hoax 3 251,500 0.71% 25,191 0.46% 1,337 1.12%
Vaccine is a Hoax 3 296,900 0.84% 40,330 0.74% 1,583 1.33%
Animal Trial 2 1,852,300 5.24% 245,700 4.51% 1,465 1.23%