Investigating the impact of search results for fever headache cough diarrhea and nausea on the incidence of COVID-19 in India using Google Trends

摘要

We read with great interest the work of Lippi et al. (1) and believe their methodology is of great value in the current pandemic for several developing countries that are struggling to contain the pandemic. India is one such country, and it has recently become the epicenter of the pandemic as it became the first country to ever register more than 400,000 new cases of COVID-19 in a single day (2).