By Bryan Hay (article here)

A multidisciplinary Lafayette duo has been collecting tweets related to the novel coronavirus pandemic to gather insights that may prove valuable to mitigate the outbreak and manage future pandemics.

Millions of tweets from around the world and in multiple languages—often several gigabytes a day of data—have been collected since Jan. 22, when total reported cases of COVID-19 stood at below 600. Tweets about the pandemic carry opinions, information, and misinformation, a reflection of how people are responding to the crisis, their altered lives, and official directives.

See dataset website

Geolocated tweets for the keyword 'coronavirus'