Emergency Physician Twitter Use in the COVID-19 Pandemic as a Potential Predictor of Impending Surge: Retrospective Observational Study

Colton Margus   ^{1, 2} , MD ;   Natasha Brown   ^{1, 2} , MD ;   Attila J Hertelendy   ^{1, 3} , PhD ;   Michelle R Safferman   ^{4, 5} , MD ;   Alexander Hart   ^{1, 2} , MD ;   Gregory R Ciottone   ^{1, 2} , MD

¹ Division of Disaster Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, United States

² Department of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States

³ Department of Information Systems and Business Analytics, College of Business, Florida International University, Miami, FL, United States

⁴ Department of Emergency Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States

⁵ Department of Emergency Medicine, Mount Sinai Morningside-West, New York, NY, United States