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. 2020 Aug 14;52(5):937–939. doi: 10.1111/apt.15951

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(A) Online search trends in the UK for commonly prescribed immunosuppressive drugs for immune mediated inflammatory diseases and IBD search terms linked with coronavirus between 5th January 2020 and 3rd May 2020. Surge in searches for immunosuppressive drugs specifically azathioprine, adalimumab and infliximab is linked to first documented cases in the UK and WHO declaration of pandemic and drugs parallels queries with coronavirus and IBD (B) Total visits to the Crohn's & Colitis UK website and visits to specific Crohn's & Colitis UK COVID‐19 advice webpages between 5th January 2020 and 3rd May 2020. Website visit surge in 2nd week of March 2020 suggests a two week delay with Google searches for IBD and immunosuppressive drugs search terms with subsequent reduction coinciding with Google search activity (r = 0.99, P < 0.001). *Search interest relative to azathioprine. □ Website visits relative to total visits to the Crohn's & Colitis UK website (peak 135,160 visits on 22nd March 2020)