Critical Metadata Analysis and Data Visualization of United States, United Kingdom, and Ireland World Leaders Twitter Responses to COVID-19 Esther Ruth Kentish (
[email protected] ) University of Oxford https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6476-4964 Research Article Keywords: COVID-19, Twitter, critical metadata analysis Posted Date: May 17th, 2021 DOI: https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-529064/v1 License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Read Full License INTRODUCTION Twitter can be utilized as a tool in Medical Education because it may serve as a learning tool and a mode of sharing critical medical updates and scientific communication. Medical Humanities scholars may utilize the social media site to situate knowledge on the novel COVID-19, also known as coronavirus. Presently, several world leaders utilize Twitter.com to communicate scientific findings as well as their own views of COVID-19. Brandt and Botelho (2020) argue that COVID-19 can be described as the "perfect storm" because of its unpredictability. COVID-19 affected the entire world from its onset in December 2019. COVID-19 has marked itself as an unpredictable virus and was initially difficult to track. Brandt and Botelho (2020) argue that COVID-19 is overly described as unpredictable because of the "rare combination of adverse meteorological factors". Whilst COVID-19 itself as a pandemic is unpredictable, some of the ways that the government is handling the situation was also very unclear. Thus, this research was pursued to follow the government's stance on the development of COVID-19 and the policies and procedures that they would follow and employ to assert control over the situation.