Table 6.
Significant COVID-19 events. We defined an acronym for each event and reported it in the main text plots. Please note that this list does not intend to be exhaustive or to establish a ranking between events
| Date | Event | Acronym |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-1-23 | Wuhan Lockdown [1] | Wuhan |
| 2020-3-9 | Italy Lockdown [74] | Italy |
| 2020-3-18 | USA’s President Trump first refers to chloroquine [79] | Trump 1 |
| 2020-3-27 | USA’s President Trump signs the CARES act [80] | Cares |
| 2020-4-3 | 1M COVID-19 cases worldwide [90] | 1M cases |
| 2020-4-5 | USA’s President Trump promotes the use of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine against COVID-19 [87] | Trump 2 |
| 2020-4-24 | COVID-19 cases in Europe are beggining to slow down [86] | Europe |
| 2020-5-18 | USA’s President Trump declares he is taking hydroxychloroquine preventively against COVID-19 [88] | Trump 3 |
| 2020-6-9 | Governments start to lift lockdown measures around the world [76] | Openings |
| 2020-6-30 | USA senate agrees to extend small business rescue [81] | SBA |
| 2020-7-28 | Twitter limits Donald Trump Jr’s account for posting COVID-19 misinformation [89] | Trump 4 |
| 2020-9-7 | Spain is the first country in Europe to record half a million COVID-19 cases [77] | Second wave |
| 2020-9-10 | Negotiations for the Heroes act keep failing [82] | Heroes |
| 2020-10-31 | PM announces four-week England lockdown [78] | New lockdowns |