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fragsworth
I'm not saying it necessarily proves it, but I'd like to hear people's takes on this, and how much panic searching might have had an impact.
Oblouk
Interesting, looking back further it seems searches for these symptoms are associated with flu seasonality.
fragsworth
Yeah, it is strongly associated with the flu seasonality. It makes sense considering what sick often people do, their first reaction is to type their symptoms into Google.
nefitty
I came to that conclusion. I'm trying different searches that might be more unique to covid-19, like labored breathing. I'm trying to think of other proxies, maybe things like "coronavirus home remedy", etc.