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Infodemiology and Infoveillance (1349) JMIR Theme Issue: COVID-19 Special Issue (2452) Theme Issue: Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Outbreak Rapid Reports (1517) Outbreak and Pandemic Preparedness and Management (1727) Infoveillance, Infodemiology, Digital Disease Surveillance, Infodemic Management (1041) Infectious Diseases (non-STD/STI) (1575) Information Seeking, Information Needs (465) Information Retrieval (287)

Published on in Vol 23, No 5 (2021): May

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/22933, first published .
Information-Seeking Patterns During the COVID-19 Pandemic Across the United States: Longitudinal Analysis of Google Trends Data

Information-Seeking Patterns During the COVID-19 Pandemic Across the United States: Longitudinal Analysis of Google Trends Data

Information-Seeking Patterns During the COVID-19 Pandemic Across the United States: Longitudinal Analysis of Google Trends Data

Authors of this article:

Tichakunda Mangono1 Author Orcid Image ;   Peter Smittenaar1 Author Orcid Image ;   Yael Caplan1 Author Orcid Image ;   Vincent S Huang1 Author Orcid Image ;   Staci Sutermaster1 Author Orcid Image ;   Hannah Kemp1 Author Orcid Image ;   Sema K Sgaier1, 2, 3 Author Orcid Image
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