Abstract:Background: New coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) poses a severe threat to human life and causes a global pandemic. The purpose of current research is to explore whether the search-engine query patterns could serve as a potential tool for monitoring the outbreak of COVID-19.Methods: We collected the number of COVID-19 confirmed cases between January 11, 2020, and c, from the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University (JHU). The search index values of the most common symptom… Show more
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