“Loss of smell” Google search now trending in West Virginia, Nebraska, Nevada

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by vinnyglennon • 6 years ago

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jka2• 6 years ago

This trend is even more striking (and perhaps more convincing and verifiable) when you extrapolate it out over a longer time scale:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=US&q=%22loss%20...

Edit: just to temper this a bit; trends can be misleading and I'm not stating that this query is a robust indicator. It'd be great to figure out how reliable these charts are.

bentcorner• 6 years ago

So.. what's going on in Nigeria?

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=NG&q=%22loss%20...

SpicyLemonZest• 6 years ago

Exactly what that trend suggests, most likely. Nigeria has 245k (!!) tuberculosis deaths a year, so it's entirely plausible IMO that they could fail to notice an uncontrolled epidemic of a different pneumonia-causing disease.

albntomat02• 6 years ago

Loss of smell has been reported in their news, and apparently was trending on Twitter among Nigerians.

"Public health physician, Dr Doyin Odubanjo, has reacted to the growing complaints of loss of smell and taste by Nigerians on Twitter, which has since triggered Coronavirus scare."

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/399665-nigerian...

http://saharareporters.com/2020/06/16/growing-complaints-los...

xenospn• 6 years ago

Is it possible a few local newspapers ran the same headline recently?

jka2• 6 years ago

It's certainly possible, yep - anything leading to increased searches for exactly that phrase.

Can you think of any related phrases to look for and/or ways to check the trend? (nothing is springing to mind here yet)

albntomat02• 6 years ago

The posted URL is of a tweet with an image of google trends data.

Here is a link to the actual website, which allows filtering by time, region, etc: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%201-m&ge...

Zaheer• 6 years ago

Apologies for being ignorant - what's the context here?

mistersquid• 6 years ago

Loss of smell is a signal symptom of COVID-19.

chrisseaton• 6 years ago

signal symptom

What's the difference between a 'signal symptom' and a normal 'symptom'? Aren't all symptoms signals?

anamexis• 6 years ago

Loss of smell is a symptom of COVID-19, often when it is otherwise asymptomatic.

wolfgang42• 6 years ago

I get that loss of smell is a symptom of COVID-19, but what’s so special about 1 AM?

stuntkite2• 6 years ago

When I had the bug in March my symptoms would be sparse during the day and suddenly get worse from 1AM to 6AM. Similar for my partner. Cough would ramp up, cold sweats, fever, and my throat would turn into a sun bleached garden hose full of glitter. We both also had a loss of smell but it wasn’t the primary symptom that bothered us.

Anecdotal, but possibly related.

tsomctl• 6 years ago

Huh. I was the exact opposite; there was no schedule for my symptoms. Some days I woke up great, and was exhausted by noon, other days I woke up feeling terrible, and had tons of energy in the afternoon.

istorical• 6 years ago

I noticed cough popped up (when it did, because it didn't often) when I was going to sleep or first thing when I woke up. Low-grade fever randomly on and off during afternoon or evenings. Loss of taste/smell the duration of a few weeks. Random diarrhea throughout.

Loss of smell wasn't one of the more noticeable symptoms but it persisted for far longer and when smell suddenly 'turned on' and I could all of a sudden smell cinnamon when I sprinkled it onto morning oatmeal the smell seemed insanely noticeable due to its long absence.

jshaqaw2• 6 years ago

Loss of smell was mainly how I suspected I had a Covid - later confirmed with an antibody test. Stay safe people.

defqon2• 6 years ago

What was your experience like?

jshaqaw2• 6 years ago

Very minor. Aside from loss of smell for a month my wife and I had no significant symptoms. I felt pretty exhausted but those weeks in NYC were so crazy that it’s hard to say what was Covid and what was ambient stress. My kids had positive antibody tests but never had symptoms. We were very fortunate.

oceanghost• 6 years ago

I had the same experience in late Jan/early Feb.

rladd• 6 years ago

This search may be better: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=now%201-d&geo=...

Shows Texas, Arizona and Florida as the most hits.

“Loss of smell” Google search now trending in West Virginia, Nebraska, Nevada

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