Infoveillance based on Social Sensors to Analyze the impact of Covid19 in South American Population

Josimar E Chire Saire

Infodemiology 1 is a new research field, with the objective of monitoring public health 2 and support public policies based on electronic sources, i.e. Internet. Usually this data is open, textual and with no structure and comes from blogs, social networks and websites, all this data is analysed in real time. And Infoveillance is related to applications for surveillance proposals, i.e. monitor H1N1 pandemic with data source from Twitter 3 , monitor Dengue in Brazil 4 , monitor covid19 symptoms in Bogota, Colombia 5 . Besides, Social sensors is related to observe what people is doing to monitor the environment of citizens living in one city, state or country. And the connection to Internet, the access to Social Networks is open and with low control, people can share false information(fake news) 6 .