Fig. 1.

The Effect of the First Local COVID-19 Diagnosis on Racial Animus. Note: The figure presents the effect of the first local COVID-19 diagnosis on the racially charged Google search index and Twitter post index. See Section 2.1 for the definitions of the indexes. Panels A and B plot the estimates and 95% confidence intervals of the coefficients on the event dummies in Eq. (3) using the Google search index and the Twitter post index as the outcome, respectively. The estimates in panels A and B correspond to column (1) of Table 2 and column (1) of Table 3. Regressions control for year-month fixed effects and media market (panel A) or county (panel B) fixed effects. Standard errors are clustered by media market (panel A) or by county (panel B).