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Therefore, this project explored different ways to combine and integrate geo-social media and web search data\u2014 crowdsourced data (CSD)\u2014and official health surveillance data\u2014occurrence data (OD)\u2014to develop novel algorithms and methodologies to achieve higher information quality to generate more reliable conclusions and more accurate predictions about the spatio-temporal spread of diseases. For this, researchers at the IT:U explored to what degree geo-social media signals can serve as early warning indicators for COVID-19 cases on state and county-level and how these capabilities differ across infection waves, space and in the context of political beliefs. 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