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. 2020 Jul;81(1):e82-e83.
doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2020.03.050. Epub 2020 Apr 10.

Social media WeChat infers the development trend of COVID-19

Yue Lu  1 , Leiliang Zhang  2
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Social media WeChat infers the development trend of COVID-19

Yue Lu et al. J Infect. 2020 Jul.
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Declaration of Completing Interest The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest.

Figures

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Fig. 1
WeChat Index of six groups of popular words (from Dec 24, 2019 to March 22, 2020). A. WeChat Index of COVID-19 outbreak place and the name of the disease/virus. B. WeChat Index of famous doctors and whistler. C. WeChat Index of potential hosts. D. WeChat Index of potential symptoms. E. WeChat Index of disease control terms. F. WeChat Index of back to school and back to work.
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