Social Media Images as an Emerging Tool to Monitor Adherence to COVID-19 Public Health Guidelines: Content Analysis

Sean D Young   ^{1, 2} , MSc, PhD ;   Qingpeng Zhang   ³ , PhD ;   Daniel Dajun Zeng   ⁴ , PhD ;   Yongcheng Zhan   ⁵ , PhD ;   William Cumberland   ⁶ , PhD

¹ Department of Informatics, University of California Institute for Prediction Technology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States

² Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States

³ School of Data Science, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China (Hong Kong)

⁴ Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

⁵ Department of Information Systems, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA, United States

⁶ Department of Biostatistics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States