We recently saw an article In Bloomberg News on the possibility of the CoronaVirus (2019-nCoV) or (COVID-19) being known as early as the last week of December 2019. We looked at GoogleTrends to see if there was any correlation to this claim and our results are below.
GoogleTrends: United States SARS last 90 days
GoogleTrends: Japan SARS last 90 days
GoogleTrends: China SARS last 90 days
GoogleTrends: China SARS last 5 years
January 12, 2020 is the date when the details of genome sequencing triggered a outbreak alert.
We have been able to confirm with GoogleTrends that in China, the December jump in searches was abnormal not only in the last 90-day period but the largest spike in searches in the last five year period.