Background: Alongside the COVID-19 pandemic, government authorities around the world
have had to face a growing infodemic capable of causing serious damages to public health …

Pearson and Spearman correlations are important tools for all scientific fields and are widely
used in medical sciences, especially during the current COVID-19 pandemic emergency …

Google Trends has been extensively used in different sectors from finance to tourism, the
economy, fashion, the fun industry, the oil trade, and healthcare. This scoping review aims to …

Background: COVID-19 has caused the worst international crisis since World War II. Italy
was one of the countries most affected by both the pandemic and the related infodemic. The …

Background: Concurrently with the COVID-19 pandemic, the world has been facing a
growing infodemic, which has caused severe damage to economic and health systems and …

The aim of this study was to investigate the coronavirus-related web-searching patterns of
people from the 10 most affected nations in September 2020. The authors extracted all …

Infodemiologic methods could be used to enhance modeling infectious diseases. It is of
interest to verify the utility of these methods using a Nigerian case study. We used Google …

Risk communication during pandemics is an element of utmost importance. Understanding
the level of public attention—a prerequisite for effective communication—implicates …

Background Psychological health has been one of the aspects affected by the recent COVID-
19 pandemic. We aim to evaluate the patterns of Google search for mental distress …

To provide additional evidence on this matter, we performed an electronic search in Google
Trends (Google Inc. Mountain View, CA, US), using the search terms ''anxiety,''''depression,'''' …