Rapid Epidemiological Data Collection on Social Media for COVID-19: Comparative Study Between Online Surveys and Conventional Cohorts

Maged Mortaga   ^{1 *} , MSc ;   Hendrik Nunner   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   Sydney Paltra   ^{2 *} , MSc ;   Leonard Stellbrink   ^{1 *} , MSc ;   Jens Friedel   ³ , MSc ;   Manuela Harries   ⁴ , DrPH ;   Jessica Krepel   ⁴ , Dr rer nat ;   Berit Lange   ⁴ , Prof Dr ;   MuSPAD Study Group   ⁴ ;   Viola Priesemann   ^{3, 5} , Prof Dr ;   André Calero Valdez   ¹ , Prof Dr

¹ Institute of Human-Centered Interactive Systems (IMIS), University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

² Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

³ Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany

⁴ Helmholtz Center for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany

⁵ Institute for the Dynamics of Complex Systems, Faculty of Physics, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

*these authors contributed equally