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wow just searching 'cough' on google trends seems to be pretty accurate just birds-eye view would be cool to read similar research using US data, and the impli
by dillondoyle 6y ago
wow just searching 'cough' on google trends seems to be pretty accurate just birds-eye view
would be cool to read similar research using US data, and the implications on policymaking.
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%203-m&geo=US&q=cough,covid%20cough,fever https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%203-m&ge...
- starpilot 6y agoThis always goes up during winter, you also have to control for all the media attention that COVID-19 is getting. People are searching just to be safe even if their symptoms are weak. It might not reflect growing infections, just growing fear.
- dillondoyle 6y agoThe spike in the timeframe of the link I put is in mid March and the decreasing rapidly. Plus I think it's also cool at least intuitively the 'trending' states make sense - though I have no idea if they are weighted by population or not.
- mellosouls 6y agoIt's interesting - tho I've just plugged in China and various periods down to the last 5 years, and there's not an obvious jump beyond the seasonal ones until after December this year.
- pstrateman 6y agogoogle in china is less than 5% of the search market
- mellosouls 6y agoyeah, I considered that - but its still presumably a large enough sample for the phrases listed in the parent comment to stand out.