Re:Wuhan hospital traffic, search engine data indicate virus...
by starpilot on Monday June 08, 2020 @04:46PM
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This always goes up during winter, you also have to control for all the media attention that COVID-19 is getting. People are searching just to be safe even if their symptoms are weak. It might not reflect growing infections, just growing fear.
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Re:Wuhan hospital traffic, search engine data indicate virus...
by dillondoyle on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @12:26AM
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The spike in the timeframe of the link I put is in mid March and the decreasing rapidly. Plus I think it's also cool at least intuitively the 'trending' states make sense - though I have no idea if they are weighted by population or not.