Is it Covid or fear of Covid that kills?
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Is it Covid or fear of Covid that kills?
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Re: Is it Covid or fear of Covid that kills?
#2>From Google Trends data, we see very few searches for “COVID” between January 1 2020 and February 20, 2020 in the United States
Well, the name "COVID" wasn't even coined by the WHO until 11 February 2020.
https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2...
You should compare the search terms coronavirus, nCoV, and Wuhan. (Although "Wuhan virus" now is a term only used by Trump supporters, for a while even Wikipedia had the name as "Wuhan coronavirus".)
Also, it's weird that I got downvoted for this entirely factual comment.
Re: Is it Covid or fear of Covid that kills?
#3>From Google Trends data, we see very few searches for “COVID” between January 1 2020 and February 20, 2020 in the United States Well, the name "COVID" wasn't even coined by the WHO until 11 February 2020. https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2... You should compare the search terms coronavirus, nCoV, and Wuhan. (Although "Wuhan virus" now is a term only used by Trump supporters, for a while eve…
Same general finding, searches for coronavirus don't start increasing substantially until Mar 9 2020: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2019-11-01%202...