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The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak is a global pandemic with communitycirculation in many countries, including the U.S. where every state isreporting confirmed cases. The course of this pandemic will be largely shapedby how governments enact timely policies, disseminate the information, and mostimportantly, how the public reacts to them. Here, we examine informationseekingresponses to the first COVID-19 case public announcement in a state. By usingan eventstudy framework, we show that such news increases collective attentionto the crisis right away, but the elevated level of attention is short-lived,even though the initial announcements were followed by increasingly strongmeasures. We find that people respond to the first report of COVID-19 in theirstate by immediately seeking information about COVID-19, as measured bysearches for coronavirus, coronavirus symptoms and hand sanitizer. On the otherhand, searches for information regarding community level policies (e.g.,quarantine, school closures, testing), or personal health strategies (e.g.,masks, grocery delivery, over-the-counter medications) do not appear to beimmediately triggered by first reports. These results are encouraging given ourstudy period is relatively early in the epidemic and more elaborate policyresponses were not yet part of the public discourse. Further analysis willtrack evolving patterns of responses to subsequent flows of public information.

Information Seeking Responses to News of Local COVID-19 Cases: Evidence from Internet Search Data