Author: Anderson, Mackenzie; Karami, Amir; Bozorgi, Parisa
Title: Social media and COVIDâ€19: Can social distancing be quantified without measuring human movements? Cord-id: 6ffgg005 Document date: 2020_10_22
ID: 6ffgg005
Snippet: The COVIDâ€19 outbreak has posed significant threats to international health and the economy. In the absence of treatment for this virus, public health officials asked the public to practice social distancing to reduce the number of physical contacts. However, quantifying social distancing is a challenging task and current methods are based on human movements. We propose a time and costâ€effective approach to measure how people practice social distancing. This study proposes a new method based
Document: The COVIDâ€19 outbreak has posed significant threats to international health and the economy. In the absence of treatment for this virus, public health officials asked the public to practice social distancing to reduce the number of physical contacts. However, quantifying social distancing is a challenging task and current methods are based on human movements. We propose a time and costâ€effective approach to measure how people practice social distancing. This study proposes a new method based on utilizing the frequency of hashtags supporting and encouraging social distancing for measuring social distancing. We have identified 18 related hashtags and tracked their trends between Jan and May 2020. Our evaluation results show that there is a strong correlation (p < .05) between our findings and the Google social distancing report.
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