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cord-242887-gtmpd7t0	Bento, Ana I.	Information Seeking Responses to News of Local COVID-19 Cases: Evidence from Internet Search Data	2020-04-06		.txt	text/plain	1786	95	55	On the other hand, searches for information regarding community level policies (e.g., quarantine, school closures, testing), or personal health strategies (e.g., masks, grocery delivery, over-the-counter medications) do not appear to be immediately triggered by first reports. To provide rapid information to guide policy making, we use Internet search data in an event-study design to examine how collective attention and information seeking behaviors respond to state government announcements of first COVID-19 cases. There was no observable trend in the search behavior in the days leading up to the announcements, suggesting the first "local" case indeed heightened the collective attention to the pandemic. The third row suggests that first case announcements did not induce search for community level policies (quarantines, school closures, and coronavirus testing), or more elaborate personal health strategies (face masks, grocery delivery, overthe-counter medications). Our results suggest that first state COVID-19 case announcements do lead to a widespread increase in the extent to which people seek out Internet information about the epidemic.	./cache/cord-242887-gtmpd7t0.txt	./txt/cord-242887-gtmpd7t0.txt