id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-266724-4szg1nbu Xie, Tiantian An Extensive Search Trends-Based Analysis of Public Attention on Social Media in the Early Outbreak of COVID-19 in China 2020-08-26 .txt text/plain 4735 257 53 5, 6 The COVID-19 pandemic has generated a huge impact on social media behaviors across the world internet community, in particular at the early outbreak in China when global attention was focused on the situation in Wuhan and Hubei province, the epicenter of the epidemic outbreak. [17] [18] [19] Similar to the situation in the regions mentioned above, researchers in many Asian countries have also verified that Internet search trends and social media data could be considered as an important and effective way for the assessment of public attention, risk perception, and behavioral responses to the epidemic outbreaks, since the outbreak of SARS in 2002 20 to the outbreak of COVID-19. 30 Based on quantitative analyses with data mined from both Baidu and Google indexes, this study aims to argue that Internet monitoring is a convenient and cost-effective way to assess public reactions, which can provide evidence to all governments and the public in the world to handle public health emergency problems in case of epidemic outbreaks. ./cache/cord-266724-4szg1nbu.txt ./txt/cord-266724-4szg1nbu.txt