Social Listening Report Number 17: 07 September 2021
- Title
- Social Listening Report Number 17: 07 September 2021
- Type of Report
- Social Listening Report
- Date
- September 7, 2021
- Key Trends In the Report
- The country was still on alert level 3. The report addressed youth hesitancy, many young people are hesitant to get vaccinated due to safety concerns and a belief that vaccination is unnecessary for their age group. A UNICEF survey found that only 55% of young people up to 24 years old are willing to get vaccinated. Covid Orphans, it was reported that South Africa has nearly 95,000 orphans due to Covid-19, according to a report from the University of Cape Town. Lastly, the report outlines misinformation around vaccine safety and vaccine side effects.
- Misinformation by Period
- Vaccines replace your innate immune system with an artificial one. vaccines cause infertility. Misinformation suggesting that vaccines are not effective in preventing COVID-19. Bill gates COVID-19 vaccine misinformation and conspiracies that vaccines are a part of larger and harmful agenda by the governments and pharmaceutical companies.
- Suggested Recommendations
- Develop FAQs. Increase local information for social listening. Develop content on Covid variants and vaccine efficacy.
- Lockdown Level
- 3
- Cumulative Cases
- 2 829 436
- Cumulative Deaths
- 83 899
- Cumulative Hospitalisations
- 415 640
- Cumulative Recoveries
- 2 610 300
- Total number of vaccines administered to date
- 14 172 810
- Geographical Region
- Global
- Curators of the report
- National Department of Health
- Stakeholders
- National Health Hotline: Reports from the national call centre
- Org: NDOH Covid-19 WhatsApp system
- WHO Africa Infodemic Response Alliance (AIRA)
- UNICEF: digital analysis of content on Google, Twitter, YouTube and Facebook, and digital news
- SA Red Cross: Network of over 2,000 community volunteers reporting misinformation and concerns.
- Real 411 Media Monitoring Africa: a mis- and disinformation reporting and debunking initiative
- COVID Comms: a network of communications specialists that produces information on the pandemic.
- DOH Free State & KZN: Provincial Departments of Health
- Health Systems Trust, Community Constituency Front (CCF),
- Health Enabled
- Centre for Communication Impact, Centre for Analytics & Behavioural Change
- Medical Research Council, National Institute for Communicable Diseases,
- SA Vaccination and Immunisation Centre, HSRC, DG Murray Trust, Right to Care
- Universities of Johannesburg, Cape Town, Free State, Wits, Stellenbosch, Sefako Makgatho
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