Table 2.

The effect of the first local COVID-19 diagnosis on racial animus Google Search Index.

	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)
VARIABLES	Ch-word index	Severity control	Asian control	Exclude states
$-$6w	$-$3.920	$-$2.694	$-$4.265	$-$8.979
	(6.379)	(6.620)	(6.404)	(8.341)
$-$5w	0.431	1.100	$-$0.198	$-$2.575
	(5.722)	(5.820)	(5.699)	(7.083)
$-$4w	9.764	10.088	9.419	9.205
	(6.263)	(6.316)	(6.233)	(7.649)
$-$3w	2.282	2.503	2.247	2.458
	(5.023)	(5.085)	(5.020)	(5.912)
$-$2w	4.739	4.899	4.771	2.564
	(5.469)	(5.535)	(5.467)	(6.150)
+0w	6.421	6.326	6.274	6.574
	(4.898)	(4.911)	(4.864)	(5.127)
+1w	22.628***	22.442***	22.030***	22.771***
	(5.210)	(5.246)	(5.280)	(5.721)
+2w	16.945***	15.936***	16.727***	18.104***
	(5.439)	(5.443)	(5.407)	(5.621)
+3w	8.155	5.702	7.894	8.614
	(5.359)	(5.907)	(5.403)	(5.829)
+4w	19.106***	15.972**	18.873***	19.527**
	(6.265)	(6.999)	(6.253)	(7.461)
+5w	18.263**	15.375*	18.041**	14.709*
	(7.411)	(8.113)	(7.428)	(8.679)
+6w	17.861**	15.002*	18.125**	18.017*
	(7.726)	(8.046)	(7.751)	(9.267)
Observations	780	780	780	663
R-squared	0.190	0.192	0.193	0.180
Outcome mean	30.03	30.03	30.03	30.03

Notes: The table presents the effect of the first local COVID-19 diagnosis on the racially charged Google search index. All columns report the estimates of coefficients on the event dummies in Eq. (3). Column (1) corresponds to Fig. A4, panel A. Column (2) controls for the number of COVID-related new cases and deaths, and whether the state has any stay-at-home orders in place. Column (3) controls for the Google search index for “Asian(s).” Column (4) excludes Washington, New York, and California. All regressions control for media market fixed effects and year-month fixed effects. Standard errors are clustered by media market. *** $p<$0.01, ** $p<$0.05, * $p<$0.1.