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Suitability of Google Trends™ for digital surveillance during ongoing COVID-19 epidemic: a case study from India

2020-08-25

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<h4>Background</h4> India went into the largest population-level lockdown on 25 th March 2020 in response to the declaration of COVID-19 pandemic by World Health Organization (WHO). Digital surveillance has been shown to be useful to supplement the traditional surveillance. Google Trends™ (GT) is one such platform reported to be useful during pandemics of H1N1, Ebola and MERS. <h4>Objective</h4> We used GT to corr...

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Literature Corpus work: 45375923-f32a-56d4-9d1c-fd0829407034
DOI: 10.1101/2020.08.24.20176321

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