What COVID Symptoms Does McHenry County Google?
Looking at Google search data for COVID-19 symptoms.
The Google COVID-19 Search Trends symptoms dataset includes more than 400 health symptoms, signs and conditions, and several studies have already investigated the frequency of searches for COVID symptoms and COVID case data.
We’re looking at a few common COVID-19 symptoms and how often McHenry County residents searched for them in 2021.
This chart shows the relative popularity (compared to a calculated average) of various COVID-19 symptoms in McHenry County.
The most interesting thing about the data here is that as the surge in cases picked up, so did the searches for most of the symptoms, but especially for “cough” and “fever.” The searches for “cough” picked up in popularity in August, while searches for “fever” increased sharply in December.
Searches for “headache” actually decreased over the course of 2021, and only slightly increased at the end of the year.
Searches for “sore throat” and “nasal congestion” steadily increased throughout 2021 but also saw a sharp increase at the end of the year.