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. 2020 Apr 20;6(2):e18941. doi: 10.2196/18941

Table 2.

Pearson correlation coefficients (r) between COVID-19 cases and deaths and Google Trends data in Italy.

Time frames	Cases		Deaths			Daily Cases^a			Daily Deaths^a
	r	P value		r	P value		r	P value		r	P value
March 2-9	0.9484	<.001		0.9336	<.001		0.9574	<.001		0.8097	.02
March 2-10	0.9157	<.001		0.8593	.003		0.8796	.002		0.7901	.01
March 2-11	0.8951	<.001		0.8261	.003		0.8473	.002		0.7979	.006
March 2-12	0.7942	.004		0.7279	.01		0.7644	.006		0.7792	.005
March 2-13	0.6357	.03		0.5605	.06		0.6768	.02		0.6401	.03
March 2-14	0.5067	.08		0.4537	.12		0.5394	.06		0.6223	.02
March 2-15	0.4417	.11		0.3949	.16		0.4828	.08		0.5071	.06
March 2-16	0.2944	.29		0.2410	.39		0.4065	.13		0.3678	.18
March 2-17	0.1588	.56		0.1036	.70		0.0388	.89		0.2624	.33

^aRefers to daily new cases and deaths.