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. 2020 Nov 25;10:20527. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-77316-3

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Media coverage. Comparison between Google searches volume for taste loss and smell loss queries, Media Cloud popularity of the same keywords and the number of new COVID-19 cases. Calculation was performed from March 4th to August 25th for Italy and the US. The Media Cloud data were normalized as for the Google search results, assigning the value of 100 to the day with the highest popularity, with the other days assigned values relative to that day. The number of new cases is relative to a population of 1,000,000 in the respective country. Purple rectangle highlights 11–17 March week in Italy, and 1–7 April week in the US, the arrows indicate the first peak for smell/taste loss media popularity.