>From Google Trends data, we see very few searches for “COVID” between January 1 2020 and February 20, 2020 in the United States<p>Well, the name "COVID" wasn't even coined by the WHO until 11 February 2020.<p><a href="https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/technical-guidance/naming-the-coronavirus-disease-(covid-2019)-and-the-virus-that-causes-it" rel="nofollow">https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2...</a><p>You should compare the search terms coronavirus, nCoV, and Wuhan. (Although "Wuhan virus" now is a term only used by Trump supporters, for a while even Wikipedia had the name as "Wuhan coronavirus".)<p>Also, it's weird that I got downvoted for this entirely factual comment.