Figure 7 shows that there was a positive correlation between the overall RSV for the topic “diseases” and the number of daily news items in eight countries, with the highest correlation coefficient exceeding 0.8; this indicated that as the number of search queries on the topic of “diseases” increased, the number of daily news items related to COVID-19 also showed an increasing trend.
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Understanding Health Communication Through Google Trends and News Coverage for COVID-19: Multinational Study in Eight Countries.
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