An empirical analysis of what people learned about COVID-19 through a web search and the impacts on misinformation and attitude towards public health safety guidelines.

2021-02-26 health informatics Title + abstract only

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Several people flocked to the Internet to learn about the SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 after the outbreak in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. As the novel coronavirus spread rapidly worldwide and was declared a global pandemic, the public rushed to Internet platforms to learn about the outbreak through Google search, online news outlets, and social media platforms. This paper evaluates the publics web search to learn about the pandemic and the possible impacts on attitude to the public health guidelin...

An empirical analysis of what people learned about COVID-19 through a web search and the impacts on misinformation and attitude towards public health safety guidelines.

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