Are online searches for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) related to media or epidemiology? A cross-sectional study

Highlights • Google trends is better at analyzing media clamor than actual disease incidence.• The World Health Organization greatly determines the search trends across Europe.• Our findings challenge previous correlations with COVID-19 searches and incidence.

• Publication year

  2020

• Venue

  International Journal of Infectious Diseases

• Publication date

  2020-06-11

• Fields of study

  Geography, Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/j.ijid.2020.06.028PMID 32535297PMCID 7290205
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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• No concepts are published for this paper.

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