Table 1.
Operational definitions of study sub-themes, 31 December 2019–30 November 2020.
Fig 1.
Global distribution of rumors and conspiracy theories related to COVID-19 vaccine, 31 December 2019–30 November 2020.
Fig 2.
Rumor and conspiracy theories related to COVID-19 vaccine by country, 31 December 2019–30 November 2020.
Fig 3.
Rumors and conspiracy theories related to COVID-19 vaccine circulating on different social media platforms, 31 December 2019–30 November 2020.
Fig 4.
Spread of misinformation and internet users search interest related to COVID-19 vaccines, 31 December 2019–30 November 2020.
*Google Trends: Numbers represent search interest relative to the highest point on the chart for the given region and time. A value of 100 is the peak popularity for the term. A value of 50 means that the term is half as popular. A score of 0 means there was not enough data for this term.
Table 2.
Rumors and conspiracy theories related to COVID-19 vaccine circulating online, 31 December 2019–30 November 2020.