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. 2021 Jan;128(1):167-169.
doi: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2020.06.026. Epub 2020 Jun 17.

Ocular Signs of COVID-19 Suggested by Internet Search Term Patterns Worldwide

Michael S Deiner  1 , Gerami D Seitzman  1 , Stephen D McLeod  1 , James Chodosh  2 , Daniel H Hwang  3 , Thomas M Lietman  1 , Travis C Porco  4
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Ocular Signs of COVID-19 Suggested by Internet Search Term Patterns Worldwide

Michael S Deiner et al. Ophthalmology. 2021 Jan.
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Figure 1
Graphs showing comparison of weekly search interest in spring 2020 versus 2015 through 2019 by category and language. Weekly mean search interest values for January through April are plotted for 2020 (red) and for 2015 through 2019 (other colors). P values indicate statistically significant search interest difference for spring 2020 months from prior spring months are shown at the top of each plot (January, February, March, and April). See Table S1 (available online at www.aaojournal.org) for more details on search terms, P values, and ratios. Values for all nonocular coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) terms are combined, as are allergy-related term values. A single term represents each ocular category. Note that a 2017 week-21 peak (brown asterisk; value = 150) for English conjunctivitis was not plotted simply to retain a y-axis scaled for convenient annual comparisons and that the scale bars for each term in Figure 1 indicate that not all terms exhibited similar strength. The x-axis is the week number and the y-axis is the weekly mean search interest.
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