On Twitter, fear of the coronavirus pandemic has given way to anger, sadness and hope, study finds

Tweets from more than seven million unique users from Jan 28 to April 9 were collected, using keywords ‘wuhan’, ‘corona’, ‘nCov’, and ‘covid’. — SCMP

The fear that people had at the start of the coronavirus outbreak eventually gave way to anger, sadness and even joy over the course of the pandemic, according to the findings of a study led by Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University (NTU).

In an analysis of over 20 million English language tweets related to Covid-19, researchers found that public emotions shifted from fear to anger when, for example, the discussion was on isolation fatigue that can occur from social seclusion, indicated by words such as “stay home” and a number of swear words.