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Background. In Italy, in recent years, vaccination coverage for keyimmunizations as MMR has been declining to worryingly low levels. In 2017, theItalian Gov't expanded the number of mandatory immunizations introducingpenalties to unvaccinated children's families. During the 2018 generalelections campaign, immunization policy entered the political debate with theGov't in charge blaming oppositions for fuelling vaccine scepticism. A newGov't established in 2018 temporarily relaxed penalties. Objectives andMethods. Using a sentiment analysis on tweets posted in Italian during 2018, weaimed to: (i) characterize the temporal flow of vaccines communication onTwitter (ii) evaluate the polarity of vaccination opinions and usefulness ofTwitter data to estimate vaccination parameters, and (iii) investigate whetherthe contrasting announcements at the highest political level might haveoriginated disorientation amongst the Italian public. Results. Vaccine-relevanttweeters interactions peaked in response to main political events. Out ofretained tweets, 70.0% resulted favourable to vaccination, 16.5% unfavourable,and 13.6% undecided, respectively. The smoothed time series of polarityproportions exhibit frequent large changes in the favourable proportion,enhanced by an up and down trend synchronized with the switch between gov'tsuggesting evidence of disorientation among the public. Conclusion. Thereported evidence of disorientation documents that critical immunizationtopics, should never be used for political consensus. This is especially truegiven the increasing role of online social media as information source, whichmight yield to social pressures eventually harmful for vaccine uptake, and isworsened by the lack of institutional presence on Twitter, calling for effortsto contrast misinformation and the ensuing spread of hesitancy.

Evidence of disorientation towards immunization on online social media  after contrasting political communication on vaccines. Results from an  analysis of Twitter data in Italy