Public Interest in Immunity and the Justification for Intervention in the Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Analysis of Google Trends Data

Jinhee Lee   ^{1 *} , MD ;   Yunna Kwan   ^{1, 2 *} , MA ;   Jun Young Lee   ³ , MD ;   Jae Il Shin   ⁴ , MD ;   Keum Hwa Lee   ⁴ , MD ;   Sung Hwi Hong   ⁴ , MD ;   Young Joo Han   ⁵ , MD ;   Andreas Kronbichler   ⁶ , MD ;   Lee Smith   ⁷ , PhD ;   Ai Koyanagi   ^{8, 9} , PhD ;   Louis Jacob   ^{8, 10} , MD ;   SungWon Choi   ² , PhD ;   Ramy Abou Ghayda   ^{11, 12} , PhD ;   Myung-Bae Park   ¹³ , PhD

¹ Department of Psychiatry, Yonsei University Wonju College of Medicine, Wonju, Republic of Korea

² Department of Psychology, Duksung Women’s University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

³ Department of Nephrology, Yonsei University Wonju College of Medicine, Wonju, Republic of Korea

⁴ Department of Pediatrics, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

⁵ Department of Pediatrics, Samsung Changwon Hospital, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Changwon, Republic of Korea

⁶ Department of Internal Medicine IV, Nephrology and Hypertension, Medical University Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

⁷ The Cambridge Centre for Sport and Exercise Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, United Kingdom

⁸ Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu/Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

⁹ Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies, Barcelona, Spain

¹⁰ Faculty of Medicine, University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Paris, France

¹¹ Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States

¹² Urology Institute, University Hospitals, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States

¹³ Department of Gerontology Health and Welfare, Pai Chai University, Daejeon, Republic of Korea

*these authors contributed equally