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First, the results of subjectivity analysis performed using TextBlob, showed that in the responses where participants indicated their biggest concern related to COVID-19, the average subjectivity by the age group of 41\u201350 decreased from April 2020 to June 2020, the average subjectivity by the age group of 71\u201380 drastically increased from May 2020, and the age group of 11\u201320 indicated the least level of subjectivity between June 2020 to August 2020. Second, subjectivity analysis also revealed the percentage of highly opinionated, neutral opinionated, and least opinionated responses per age-group where the analyzed age groups were 11\u201320, 21\u201330, 31\u201340, 41\u201350, 51\u201360, 61\u201370, 71\u201380, and 81\u201390. For instance, the percentage of highly opinionated, neutral opinionated, and least opinionated responses by the age group of 11\u201320 were 17.92%, 16.24%, and 65.84%, respectively. Third, data analysis of responses from different age groups showed that the highest percentage of responses indicating that they were very worried about COVID-19 came from individuals in the age group of 21\u201330. Fourth, data analysis of the survey responses also revealed that in the context of taking precautions to prevent contracting COVID-19, the percentage of individuals in the age group of 31\u201340 taking precautions was higher as compared to the percentages of individuals from the age groups of 41\u201350, 51\u201360, 61\u201370, 71\u201380, and 81\u201390. Fifth, a deep learning model was developed to detect if the survey respondents were seeing or planning to see a psychologist or psychiatrist for any mental health issues related to COVID-19. The design of the deep learning model comprised 8 neurons for the input layer with the ReLU activation function, the ReLU activation function for all the hidden layers with 12 neurons each, and the sigmoid activation function for the output layer with 1 neuron. The model utilized the responses to multiple questions in the context of fear and preparedness related to COVID-19 from the dataset and achieved an accuracy of 91.62% after 500 epochs. 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