Social Media as an Early Proxy for Social Distancing Indicated by the COVID-19 Reproduction Number: Observational Study

• Main Authors: Younis, Joseph (Author), Freitag, Harvy (Author), Ruthberg, Jeremy S (Author), Romanes, Jonathan P (Author), Nielsen, Craig (Author), Mehta, Neil (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: JMIR Publications, 2020-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background The magnitude and time course of the COVID-19 epidemic in the United States depends on early interventions to reduce the basic reproductive number to below 1. It is imperative, then, to develop methods to actively assess where quarantine measures such as social distancing may be deficient...