Association Between What People Learned About COVID-19 Using Web Searches and Their Behavior Toward Public Health Guidelines: Empirical Infodemiology Study

Ikpe Justice Akpan   ^{1 *} , BSc, MSc, PhD ;   Obianuju Genevieve Aguolu   ^{2 *} , MD, MPH, PhD ;   Yawo Mamoua Kobara   ^{3 *} , BSc, MSc ;   Rouzbeh Razavi   ^{4 *} , BSc, MSc, PhD ;   Asuama A Akpan   ^{5 *} , BSc, MA ;   Murali Shanker   ^{4 *} , BSc, MSc, PhD

¹ Department of Management & Information Systems, Kent State University, New Philadelphia, OH, United States

² Infectious Disease Internal Medicine Department, Yale School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States

³ Statistical and Actuarial Sciences, Western University, London, ON, Canada

⁴ Department of Management & Information Systems, Kent State University, Kent, OH, United States

⁵ Research and Development, Ibom International Center for Research and Scholarship, Windsor, ON, Canada

*all authors contributed equally