Google Trends suggests chickenpox spread suppressed during COVID-19

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Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0283465

Article Title: Impact assessment of immunization and the COVID-19 pandemic on varicella across Europe using digital epidemiology methods: A descriptive study

Author Countries: Sweden, Lithuania, Ireland, USA, Spain

Funding: Funding for this research was provided by Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC, a subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA (MSD). We confirm that the funder provided support in the form of salaries for Ugne Sabale, Ligita Jarmale, Janice Murtagh, Manjiri Pawaskar, and Goran Bencina, but did not have any additional role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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