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Whereas patients in China were more likely to have fever before cough and then nausea\/vomiting before diarrhea, patients in the USA were more likely to have cough before fever and then diarrhea before nausea\/vomiting. Given that the D614G SARS-CoV-2 variant that rapidly spread from Europe to predominate in the USA during the first wave of the outbreak was not present in the initial China outbreak, we hypothesized that this mutation might affect symptom order. Supporting this notion, we found that as SARS-CoV-2 in Japan shifted from the original Wuhan reference strain to the D614G variant, symptom order shifted to the USA pattern. Google Trends analyses supported these findings, while weather, age, and comorbidities did not affect our model\u2019s predictions of symptom order. 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