Social Listening Report Number 64: 29 August 2022
- Title
- Social Listening Report Number 64: 29 August 2022
- Type of Report
- Social Listening Report
- Date
- August 29, 2022
- Key Trends In the Report
- The state of disaster was lifted. The report covered healthcare issues beyond COVID-19, these included reports about increased risk of diabetes diagnosis in adults and children. Mental health and neurological diagnosis post COVID-19, and cardiovascular diseases such as increased chances of the disease in men over 50 post-COVID-19. The report this month also covered public sentiments related to monkeypox including misinformation and lack of information related to monkeypox. Lastly, the report contained information related to COVID-19 including vaccine hesitancy and booster shot hesitancy.
- Misinformation by Period
- There was misinformation related to monkeypox where monkeypox was comapred to diseases like shingles that contributed towards to people downplaying the severity of monkeypox. Additional misinformation was related to COVID-19 including misinformation about vaccine safety and efficacy, other misinformation included myths about the origins, spread and treatment of COVID-19
- Suggested Recommendations
- Promote childhood vaccination by highlighting the benefits of childhood vaccination and address misinformation related to routine childhood vaccines. Increase targeted interventions that include developing platforms for the general public to interact with the general public on the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines and laslty, promote and strenghten the involvement of the youth in COVID-19 vaccination.
- Lockdown Level
- The National State of Disaster lifted
- Cumulative Cases
- 4 011 357
- Cumulative Deaths
- 104 280
- Cumulative Hospitalisations
- 542 156
- Cumulative Recoveries
- 3 907 077
- Total number of vaccines administered to date
- 37 476 600
- Geographical Region
- Africa (South Africa)
- Curators of the report
- Nombulelo Leburu
- NDoH
- Peter Benjamin
- HealthEnabled
- Charity Bhengu.
- 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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