Correlations of Online Search Engine Trends With Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Incidence: Infodemiology Study.

Thomas S Higgins Arthur William Wu Dhruv Sharma Elisa A Illing Kolin E Rubel Jonathan Y Tingnull null

Published in: JMIR public health and surveillance (2020)

This study demonstrates the utility of digital epidemiology in providing helpful surveillance data of disease outbreaks like COVID-19. Although certain online search trends for this disease were influenced by media coverage, many search terms reflected clinical manifestations of the disease and showed strong correlations with real-world cases and deaths.

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