Searches for both 'corona beer' and 'corona beer virus' have spiked since the first US cases were confirmed last week. However, it's likely that the more people have typed 'corona', the more Google has auto-completed that search with 'beer' or 'beer virus.' People have been confusing the new, deadly coronavirus with Corona beer with searches for both 'corona beer' and 'corona beer virus' rising by more than 1,100% over the last weekJust five searches for the 'term 'corona beer virus' took place on January 22 compared to at least 100 searches on January 29. Meanwhile, residents of New Mexico, Nebraska and Kansas were the most likely to search for the term 'beer virus.' GoogleTrends data also shows that, in the past week, Singapore, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Australia and New Zealand were the countries that searched most often for 'corona beer virus.'

Source: Daily Mail January 29, 2020 18:14 UTC