The Influence of Media Coverage and Governmental Policies on Google Queries Related to COVID-19 Cutaneous Symptoms: Infodemiology Study.
Solene Huynh DagherGuillaume LaméThomas HubicheKhaled EzzedineTu-Anh DuongPublished in: JMIR public health and surveillance (2021)
To date, the association between chilblain-like lesions and COVID-19 remains controversial; however, our results indicate that Google queries of "chilblain" were highly influenced by media coverage and government policies, indicating that caution should be exercised when using Google Trends as a monitoring tool for emerging diseases.