Assessing the online search behavior for COVID-19 outbreak: Evidence from Iran.

PLoS One · 2022 · PMC9321440 · PMID 35881584

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The marginal model also revealed that the factor score “2” quintiles and time interaction on the number of COVID-19 patients were highly significant (X 2 = 10.094, df = 4, P = 0.039).

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Results All the COVID-19-related search terms in Iran gained their highest popularity value (relative search volume = 100) in the first 8 weeks of the pandemic, and then this value assumed a decreasing trend over time.

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The number of weekly new cases of COVID-19, from 16 February 2020 to 2 January 2021, in Iran, based on official statistics, has an increasing trend ( Fig 2 ).

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