American researchers have been able to show a correlation between Google searches for symptoms and the formation of actual focal points over a period of 3 to 4 weeks.

Coronavirus: the second wave

Half a year after the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic in the spring, the second wave of the pandemic has arrived. The radical increase in the number of infected is forcing more and more countries to re-impose restrictions, despite the fact that the world economy has not even recovered from the effects of the spring outbreak. According to the posters, the second wave also reached Hungary. Follow our news!

We could predict an increase in the number of Covid-19 infections weeks earlier by the number of Google searches for symptoms of stomach upset, according to a study from Massachusetts General Hospital (central hospital) in Boston, cited by Bloomberg.

Researchers at the Boston hospital compared the frequency of the keywords “anorexia,” “loss of taste,” and “diarrhea,” among other things, with the actual development of Covid infections in 15 US states. Out of 20 January and April 20.

The result showed that the search trends coincided with an increase in the number of cases 3-4 weeks later in the 5 states most affected by the epidemic (New York, New Jersey, California, Massachusetts and Illinois).

The research, according to Bloomberg, is pioneering in predicting coronavirus infection.

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