In Italy, the phenomenon of vaccine hesitancy has increased with time and represents a
complex problem that requires a continuous monitoring. Misinformation on media and social …

Background The internet has become a major resource in information transfer during COVID-
19, and traditional means of communication are digitized and accessible online to the public …

Background The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the consequent “infodemic”
increased concerns about Twitter's role in advancing antivaccination messages, even before …

Abstract COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) vaccines have become available; now,
everyone has the opportunity to get vaccinated. We used Google Trends (GT) data to assess …

Purpose The COVID-19 death-rate in Italy continues to climb, surpassing that in every other
country. We implement one of the first nationally representative surveys about this …

Background: The suspension of compulsory scheduling of some pediatric vaccines has
been discussed for a long time by health authorities in Italy but the current decrease of …

Since the early stage of the current pandemic, digital contact tracing (DCT) through mobile
phone apps, called “Immuni”, has been introduced to complement manual contact tracing in …

Vaccine knowledge of the general population is shaped by different information sources and
strongly influences vaccination attitudes and uptake. The CCM-Italian Ministry of Health …

Methods: Tweets were sampled in the October 2020-January 2021 period. The
characteristics of the dataset were analyzed after manual annotation as Anti-Vax, Pro-Vax …

When the threat of COVID-19 became widely acknowledged, many hoped that this
pandemic would squash “the anti-vaccine movement”. However, when vaccines started …