Social Listening Report Number 66: 12 September 2022
- Title
- Social Listening Report Number 66: 12 September 2022
- Type of Report
- Social Listening Report
- Date
- September 12, 2022
- Key Trends In the Report
- The national state of disaster was lifted. There was increased social media engagement and search queries, the general public was searching for nearest COVID-19 vaccination cites, Barre Syndrome, COVID-19 vaccination benefits, and vaccine safety and efficacy. Other related diseases outside COVID-19 included Polio and Measles.
- Misinformation by Period
- The report covered misinformation related to COVID-19, this included misleading media headlines about a possible sixth wave of COVID-19 infections. Additionally, the misinformation include COVID-19 vaccine related health concerns such as heart inflammation, claims about the safety of COVID-19 vaccines for pregnant and breastfeeding women. Lastly, the misinformation included unfounded claims about alternative treatments for COVID-19 infections including ivermectin
- Suggested Recommendations
- Suggested recommendations included promotion for routine childhood vaccinations including Polio vaccines. To increase community engagement including promoting vaccine acceptance and uptake during the comrades marathon. Laslty, addressing and combacting misinformation related to COVID-19 and routine communication.
- Lockdown Level
- The National State of Disaster lifted
- Cumulative Cases
- 4 014 405
- Cumulative Deaths
- 104 347
- Cumulative Hospitalisations
- 542 795
- Cumulative Recoveries
- 3 910 058
- Total number of vaccines administered to date
- 37 564 243
- 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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