Applications of Google Search Trends for risk communication in infectious disease management: A case study of the COVID-19 outbreak in Taiwan | Zendy

Atina Husnayain | Zendy; Anis Fuad | Zendy; Emily ChiaYu Su | Zendy

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Applications of Google Search Trends for risk communication in infectious disease management: A case study of the COVID-19 outbreak in Taiwan

Author(s) -

Atina Husnayain,

Anis Fuad,

Emily ChiaYu Su

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

international journal of infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.278

H-Index - 89

eISSN - 1878-3511

pISSN - 1201-9712

DOI - 10.1016/j.ijid.2020.03.021

Subject(s) - outbreak , covid-19 , lag time , pandemic , economic shortage , lag , risk communication , geography , demography , time lag , infectious disease (medical specialty) , environmental health , medicine , computer science , disease , virology , biology , computer network , linguistics , philosophy , government (linguistics) , sociology , biological system

An emerging outbreak of a novel coronavirus, COVID-19, has now been detected in at least 211 countries worldwide. Given this pandemic situation, robust risk communication is urgently needed, particularly in affected countries. Therefore, this study explored the potential use of Google Trends (GT) to monitor public restlessness toward COVID-19 infection in Taiwan.

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