Published on in Vol 7, No 12 (2021): December

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/33617, first published .
Utility of Facebook’s Social Connectedness Index in Modeling COVID-19 Spread: Exponential Random Graph Modeling Study

Utility of Facebook’s Social Connectedness Index in Modeling COVID-19 Spread: Exponential Random Graph Modeling Study

Utility of Facebook’s Social Connectedness Index in Modeling COVID-19 Spread: Exponential Random Graph Modeling Study

Beth Prusaczyk   1, 2 , MSW, PhD ;   Kathryn Pietka   3 ;   Joshua M Landman   1, 4 , MS ;   Douglas A Luke   5 , PhD

1 Center for Population Health Informatics, Institute for Informatics, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO, United States

2 Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO, United States

3 Truman State University, Kirksville, MO, United States

4 Division of Computational and Data Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO, United States

5 Center for Public Health Systems Science, Brown School, Washington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO, United States

Corresponding Author:

  • Beth Prusaczyk, MSW, PhD
  • Center for Population Health Informatics
  • Institute for Informatics
  • Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
  • 660 S. Euclid Avenue
  • Saint Louis, MO, 63110
  • United States
  • Phone: 1 314-330-0537
  • Email: beth.prusaczyk@wustl.edu