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Infodemiology and Infoveillance (1269) JMIR Theme Issue: COVID-19 Special Issue (2388) Infoveillance, Infodemiology, Digital Disease Surveillance, Infodemic Management (1010) Infectious Diseases (non-STD/STI) (1478) Theme Issue: Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Outbreak Rapid Reports (1481) Information Quality in Digital Media (316)

Published on in Vol 22, No 8 (2020): August

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.21.20108910v1, first published .
Global Infodemiology of COVID-19: Analysis of Google Web Searches and Instagram Hashtags

Global Infodemiology of COVID-19: Analysis of Google Web Searches and Instagram Hashtags

Global Infodemiology of COVID-19: Analysis of Google Web Searches and Instagram Hashtags

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Alessandro Rovetta1 Author Orcid Image ;   Akshaya Srikanth Bhagavathula2 Author Orcid Image
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