Researchers from the Centre for Health Analytics at Melbourne’s Murdoch Children's Research Institute are studying whether social media platforms such as Twitter can be used as a vaccine safety data source to pick up potential adverse events, not just for the COVID vaccines but potentially many paediatric and adult vaccines.

The research is looking at whether social media data can be added to existing data sources for the Surveillance of Adverse Events Following Vaccination In the Community (SAEFVIC) vaccine safety surveillance service.