Leveraging Large Language Models for Infectious Disease Surveillance—Using a Web Service for Monitoring COVID-19 Patterns From Self-Reporting Tweets: Content Analysis

Jiacheng Xie   ^{1, 2} , PhD ;   Ziyang Zhang   ^{1, 2} , MS ;   Shuai Zeng   ^{1, 2} , PhD ;   Joel Hilliard   ¹ , BSc ;   Guanghui An   ^{2, 3} , MD, PhD ;   Xiaoting Tang   ^{2, 4} , MD, PhD ;   Lei Jiang   ^{1, 2} , PhD ;   Yang Yu   ^{1, 2} , PhD ;   Xiufeng Wan   ^{1, 2, 5, 6} , PhD ;   Dong Xu   ^{1, 2} , PhD

¹ Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, United States

² Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, United States

³ School of Acupuncture-Moxibustion and Tuina, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China

⁴ Shanghai Pudong New Area Wanggang Community Health Service Center, Shanghai, China

⁵ NextGen Center for Influenza and Emerging Infectious Diseases, University of Missouri, Columbia, United States

⁶ Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, University of Missouri, Columbia, United States