{"id":6668,"date":"2020-05-06T15:29:02","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T22:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6668"},"modified":"2021-03-16T15:29:52","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T22:29:52","slug":"evidence-from-internet-search-data-shows-information-seeking-responses-to-news-of-local-covid-19-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/06\/evidence-from-internet-search-data-shows-information-seeking-responses-to-news-of-local-covid-19-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Evidence from internet search data shows information-seeking responses to news of local COVID-19 cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Bento et al.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">used internet search data from the US to\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">examine information-seeking\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">behaviors in\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">responses to the\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">public announcement\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">of the first case of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">COVID-19\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in a state<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Across states, s<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">earches\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">for information about COVID-19 increase<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">d<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0immediately after the announcement, but the elevated level of attention\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">wa<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">s short-lived, even though<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0it was<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0followed by increasingly strong policy measures. Searches for information about community-level policies (e.g., quarantine, school closures, testing) or personal health strategies (e.g., masks, grocery delivery, over-the-counter medications)\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">we<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">r<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">e\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">not\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">immediately triggered.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">These results\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">correspond to a<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0relatively early\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">period\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in the epidemic\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">when\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">more<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0comprehensive<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0policy responses were not yet part of the public discourse. Further analysis should track evolving patterns of responses to\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">new<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0public information<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0reports<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Bento et al. (<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">May\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">4, 2020). Evidence from internet search data shows information-seeking responses to news of local COVID-19 cases<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">PNAS.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1073\/pnas.2005335117\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.o<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">r<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">g\/10.1073\/pnas.2005335117<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bento et al.\u00a0used internet search data from the US to\u00a0examine information-seeking\u00a0behaviors in\u00a0responses to the\u00a0public announcement\u00a0of the first case of\u00a0COVID-19\u00a0in a state.\u00a0Across states, searches\u00a0for information about COVID-19 increased\u00a0immediately after the announcement, but the elevated level of attention\u00a0was short-lived, even though\u00a0it was\u00a0followed by increasingly strong policy measures. Searches for information about community-level policies (e.g., quarantine, school closures,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/06\/evidence-from-internet-search-data-shows-information-seeking-responses-to-news-of-local-covid-19-cases\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-6668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6669,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6668\/revisions\/6669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6668"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}