Sustained Reductions in Online Search Interest for Communicable Eye and Other Conditions During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Infodemiology Study

Michael S Deiner   ^{1, 2} , PhD ;   Gerami D Seitzman   ^{1, 2} , MD ;   Gurbani Kaur   ³ , BA ;   Stephen D McLeod   ^{1, 2} , MD ;   James Chodosh   ⁴ , MD, MPH ;   Thomas M Lietman   ^{1, 2, 5} , MD ;   Travis C Porco   ^{1, 2, 5} , MPH, PhD

¹ Francis I Proctor Foundation, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States

² Department of Ophthalmology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States

³ School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States

⁴ Department of Ophthalmology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States

⁵ Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Global Health Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States