{"id":6685,"date":"2020-05-07T15:38:52","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T22:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6685"},"modified":"2021-03-16T15:39:42","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T22:39:42","slug":"internet-search-patterns-reveal-clinical-course-of-disease-progression-for-covid-19-and-predict-pandemic-spread-in-32-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/07\/internet-search-patterns-reveal-clinical-course-of-disease-progression-for-covid-19-and-predict-pandemic-spread-in-32-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet Search Patterns Reveal Clinical Course of Disease Progression for COVID-19 and Predict Pandemic Spread in 32 Countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Analysis of global internet search patterns in 32 countries across six continents detected a robust temporal pattern of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">a\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">progression\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">of search terms related<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0symptoms that matches the clinical course\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">of COVID-19<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\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=\"36\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">E<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">arliest-peaking search terms\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">were\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">combinations of\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cfever\u201d, \u201ccough\u201d, \u201ccoronavirus symptoms\u201d<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0and \u201ccoronavirus test<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201d<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">There was an average lag of 5-days between increases in searches for \u201cfever\u201d and \u201ccough\u201d and the increase in searches for \u201c<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">shortness of breath<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201d<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\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=\"36\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Increases in\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">reported COVID-19 cases and deaths follow<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ed<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0increases in\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">searches related to COVID-19 symptoms\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">by 18.53 (95% CI 15.98, 21.08) and 22.16 days (95% CI 20.33, 23.99), respectively.<\/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\">Lu<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0and Reis<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">. (May 6, 2020). Internet Search Patterns Reveal Clinical Course of Disease Progression for COVID-19 and Predict Pandemic Spread in 32 Countries.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Pre-print downloaded May 7 from<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.05.01.20087858\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.05.01.20087858<\/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>Analysis of global internet search patterns in 32 countries across six continents detected a robust temporal pattern of\u00a0a\u00a0progression\u00a0of search terms related\u00a0symptoms that matches the clinical course\u00a0of COVID-19.\u00a0\u00a0 Earliest-peaking search terms\u00a0were\u00a0combinations of\u00a0\u201cfever\u201d, \u201ccough\u201d, \u201ccoronavirus symptoms\u201d,\u00a0and \u201ccoronavirus test.\u201d\u00a0There was an average lag of 5-days between increases in searches for \u201cfever\u201d and \u201ccough\u201d and the increase in searches&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/07\/internet-search-patterns-reveal-clinical-course-of-disease-progression-for-covid-19-and-predict-pandemic-spread-in-32-countries\/\">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":[21],"class_list":["post-6685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-transmission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6685","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=6685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6686,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6685\/revisions\/6686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6685"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}