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## Estimation
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We query the Google Health Trends API for overall searcher interest in a set of
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- COVID-19 related terms which encompass the following topics: coronavirus
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- symptoms; coronavirus help; coronavirus test-seeking; anosmia (lack of smell or
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- taste). The API provides data at the Nielsen Designated Marketing Area (DMA)
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- level and at the State level. This information reported by the API is unitless
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- and pre-normalized for population size; i.e., the time series obtained for New
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- York and Wyoming states are directly comparable. The public has access to a
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- limited view of such information through [ Google
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- Trends] ( https://trends.google.com ) .
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+ COVID-19 related terms about anosmia (lack of smell or taste), which emerged as
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+ a symptom of the coronavirus. The specific terms are:
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+
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+ * "why cant i smell or taste"
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+ * "loss of smell"
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+ * "loss of taste"
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+ * Anosmia generally, by querying for topics linked by Google to the anosmia item
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+ in the Freebase knowledge graph (ID ` /m/0m7pl ` )
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+
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+ The API provides data at the Nielsen Designated Marketing Area (DMA) level and
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+ at the State level. This information reported by the API is unitless and
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+ pre-normalized for population size; i.e., the time series obtained for New York
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+ and Wyoming states are directly comparable. The public has access to a limited
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+ view of such information through [ Google Trends] ( https://trends.google.com ) .
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DMA-level data are aggregated to the MSA and HRR level through
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population-weighted averaging.
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