United States Influenza Search Patterns Since the Emergence of COVID-19: Infodemiology Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The emergence and media coverage of COVID-19 may have affected influenza search patterns, possibly affecting influenza surveillance results using Google Trends.

Objective

We aimed to investigate if the emergence of COVID-19 was associated with modifications in influenza search patterns in the United States.

Methods

We retrieved US Google Trends data (relative number of searches for specified terms) for the topics influenza, Coronavirus disease 2019, and symptoms shared between influenza and COVID-19. We calculated the correlations between influenza and COVID-19 search data for a 1-year period after the first COVID-19 diagnosis in the United States (January 21, 2020 to January 20, 2021). We constructed a seasonal autoregressive integrated moving average mode

SUBMITTER: Cai O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8896565 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature