Figure 2
Top: Positive UK COVID-19 death numbers per 100,000 plotted as a function of time, reported via Public Health England UK government data7. Bottom: The total number of tweets containing the keyword ‘coronavirus’, aggregated via the counts endpoint via the Twitter API. Both distributions exhibit three phases, Phase 1: an initial exponential rise, Phase 2: the peak in the time series and Phase 3: a gradual decay.
