Inefficacious drugs against covid-19: analysis of sales, tweets, and search engines
Irineu de Brito Junior,
Flaviane Azevedo Saraiva,
Nathan de Campos Bruno
et al.
Abstract:OBJECTIVE
Assess the correlation between the sales of two drugs with no proven efficacy against covid-19, ivermectin and chloroquine, and other relevant variables, such as Google
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searches, number of tweets related to these drugs, number of cases and deaths resulting from covid-19.
METHODS
The methodology adopted in this study has four stages: data collection, data processing, exploratory data analysis, and correlation analysis. Spearman’s me… Show more
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