Assessing the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Spain: Large-Scale, Online, Self-Reported Population Survey.

Nuria Oliver Xavier Barber Kirsten Roomp Kristof Roomp

Published in: Journal of medical Internet research (2020)

Large-scale online population surveys, distributed via social media and online messaging platforms, can be an effective, cheap, and fast tool to assess the impact and prevalence of an infectious disease in the context of a pandemic, particularly when there is a scarcity of official data and limited testing capacity.

Keyphrases

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