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  • Epidemiology
  • Public Health
  • Data Science

Background:

  • Nonpharmaceutical interventions for COVID-19 had significant societal costs.
  • Geosocial media data shows promise for anticipating health crises.
  • Previous studies lacked understanding of political influence on geosocial media early warning capabilities.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Assess how geosocial media's COVID-19 early warning capabilities change over time.
  • Examine variations across US counties with different political beliefs.
  • Investigate the impact of political clusters on epidemiological forecasting.

Main Methods:

  • Classified US counties into democrat, republican, and swing political clusters using election data.
  • Analyzed geosocial media post data across six COVID-19 waves (Feb 2020-Apr 2022).
  • Measured temporal lag and time series correlation between geosocial media signals and COVID-19 case surges.

Main Results:

  • Geosocial media data preceded COVID-19 cases by an average of 21 days in republican, 14.6 in democrat, and 24.2 in swing counties.
  • Early warning signals generally preceded cases in 5 out of 6 waves.
  • A decrease in lead time was observed over time, particularly in democrat and republican counties, alongside declining signal strength and trending topic interference.

Conclusions:

  • Geosocial media data's early warning capabilities for COVID-19 are influenced by county-level political clusters.
  • Future epidemiological early warning systems should incorporate political belief data.
  • Further research is needed on declining signal strength and trending topics' impact on reliability.