Using Google Health Trends to investigate COVID-19 incidence in Africa

• Alexander Fulk ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Alexander Fulk, Daniel Romero-Alvarez

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America

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• Daniel Romero-Alvarez ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Alexander Fulk, Daniel Romero-Alvarez

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: daromero88@gmail.com

  Affiliations Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America, Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America, One Health Research Group, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de las Américas, Quito, Ecuador

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6762-6046

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• Qays Abu-Saymeh,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America

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• Jarron M. Saint Onge,

  Roles Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Population Health, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America, Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America

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• A. Townsend Peterson,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America, Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America

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• Folashade B. Agusto

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America

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