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55: Detecting Disease Outbreaks from Internet Traffic | Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

The After On Podcast

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I Can't Smell, Is It a Covid Symptom?

In april, you wrote a new york timespiece about people gogling the covid symptom i can't smell. So could you tell us a little bit about that research? Yes, the whole bunch of people were like messaging me or maling me, and they're like, sa thor yu, ging to writ an article about cov because for the last seven or eight years, been someone who's looked at google searches in covid. And initially i was actually really sceptical. But since that article came out, every couple of weeks i go to gugal trends and look at the i can't smells searches. This entire outbreak is tracked covet outbreaks like almost perfectly

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