Fig 1.
Comparison of the COVID-19 outbreak and Baidu searching index.
A. Timeline of the COVID-19 outbreak and official response. Only confirmed cases were analyzed referring to the report by The Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia Emergency Response Epidemiology Team in China. [10] B. The online search index for the terms of “pneumonia” and “SARS”.
Fig 2.
Reported influenza-like illness (ILI) cases during 2015–2019 A. The long-term trend of monthly reported ILI cases. B. Comparison of monthly reported ILI cases in different years.