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Table 1 Top generic and stigmatizing COVID-19 monikers. The third column shows the weekly relative RSV peaks in January—February—March 2020 (period 1). The last column shows the percentage ratios between the absolute peak of each keyword and the peak of the keyword with the highest absolute peak

From: A new infodemiological approach through Google Trends: longitudinal analysis of COVID-19 scientific and infodemic names in Italy

Name

Keyword

Period 1 Max

Ratios (%)

K1

coronavirus c

14—87—100

100—100—100

K2

corona a

13—100—71

7.8—6.8—4.0

K3

virus b

72—100—97

23—4.7—4.0

K4

corona virus

18—100—88

18—15—12

K5

virus cina + virus cinese + virus wuhan b

100—26—19

15—0.5—0.3

K6

coronavirus cina + coronavirus cinese + coronavirus wuhan

74—72—100

8.0—1.2—1.5

K7

corona cina + corona cinese + corona wuhana

62—100—93

1.3—0.3—0.3

K8

sars + sarscov + sars-cov

95—100—70

3.0—0.6—0.4

K9

malattia cina + malattia cinese + malattia wuhan

100—5—8

0.7—0.1—0.01

K10

epidemia

36—63—100

2.2—0.5—0.7

K11

pandemia

3—18—100

0.9—0.9—4.4

K12

pandemia cina + pandemia cinese + pandemia wuhan

100—36—90

0.3—0.04—0.002

K13

contagio

14—73—100

1.6—1.4—1.6

K14

influenza cinese + influenza cina + influenza wuhan

100—36—24

0.8—0.05—0.03

  1. Translations: Cina China, Cinese Chinese, contagio contagion, epidemia epidemic, malattia disease, pandemia pandemic
  2. athe term "virus" was subtracted
  3. b the term "corona" was subtracted
  4. cthe terms "novel" and "nuovo" were subtracted