id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-352509-qrzt4zva Chen, Haohui Social distance and SARS memory: impact on the public awareness of 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak 2020-03-16 .txt text/plain 3903 223 63 This study examines publicly available online search data in China to investigate the spread of public awareness of the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. We use the continuing Wuhan coronavirus outbreak as our case study to estimate the effects of social distance and SARS memory on the spread of public awareness. The effects of social distance and SARS memory on the lead-time advantage are estimated according to Eq. 4, controlled by Euclidean distances, GDP per capita and the city's administrative level (Table 1) . That means cities of strong SARS memory and which are closer to Wuhan in terms of Social distances develop early awareness. Through controlling for development, administrative levels, and Euclidean distances, we observe cities that were struck by SARS and have more migration to the epicentre, Wuhan, showed earlier, stronger and more durable public awareness of the outbreak. ./cache/cord-352509-qrzt4zva.txt ./txt/cord-352509-qrzt4zva.txt