Assessment of the Impact of Media Coverage on COVID-19–Related Google Trends Data: Infodemiology Study

Bernardo Sousa-Pinto   ^{1, 2} , MD, PhD ;   Aram Anto   ³ , MSc ;   Wienia Czarlewski   ^{3, 4} , MD, PhD ;   Josep M Anto   ^{5, 6, 7} , MD, PhD ;   João Almeida Fonseca   ^{1, 2} , MD, PhD ;   Jean Bousquet   ^{8, 9, 10} , MD, PhD

¹ Department of Community Medicine, Information and Health Decision Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

² Center for Health Technology and Services Research, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

³ MASK-air, Montpellier, France

⁴ Medical Consulting Czarlewski, Levallois, France

⁵ Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology, Barcelona Institute for Global Health, Barcelona, Spain

⁶ Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

⁷ CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública, Barcelona, Spain

⁸ Charité, Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

⁹ Comprehensive Allergy Center, Department of Dermatology and Allergy, Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany

¹⁰ MACVIA-France, Montpellier, France