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We performed a cross-sectional bibliometric analysis between 23rd March and 14th April 2020. Three sources of data were used: (1) deaths per number of population for COVID-19\/SARS-CoV-2 retrieved from John Hopkins University and Worldometer, (2) publications related to COVID-19\/SARS-CoV-2 retrieved from World Health Organisation COVID-19 database, and (3) tweets of these publications retrieved from Altmetric.com and Twitter. In the analysis, the number of publications used was 1761, and number of tweets used was 751,068. Mapping of worldwide data illustrated that high Twitter activity was related to high numbers of COVID-19\/SARS-CoV-2 deaths, with tweets inversely weighted with number of publications. 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