Table 3.

Pearson correlation analysis between the number of daily news items and the number of new hospital notifications of COVID-19 in China from January 11th to February 6th 2020.

	y	$y_1$	$x_1$	$x_2$	$x_3$	$x_4$	$x_5$	$x_6$	$x_7$	$x_8$	$x_9$	$x_{10}$	$x_{11}$	$x_{12}$
y	1
$y_1$	0.993**	1
$x_1$	0.974**	0.949**	1
$x_2$	0.646**	0.583**	0.737**	1
$x_3$	0.948**	0.905**	0.966**	0.747**	1
$x_4$	0.767**	0.716**	0.838**	0.739**	0.817**	1
$x_5$	0.976**	0.947**	0.968**	0.711**	0.981**	0.808**	1
$x_6$	0.919**	0.885**	0.916**	0.707**	0.947**	0.832**	0.957**	1
$x_7$	0.763**	0.723**	0.808**	0.626**	0.783**	0.796**	0.763**	0.760**	1
$x_8$	0.806**	0.776**	0.864**	0.825**	0.829**	0.683**	0.793**	0.738**	0.736**	1
$x_9$	0.569**	0.494**	0.678**	0.882**	0.716**	0.687**	0.629**	0.651**	0.610**	0.782**	1
$x_{10}$	0.562**	0.509**	0.642**	0.801**	0.665**	0.562**	0.618**	0.596**	0.601**	0.804**	0.740**	1
$x_{11}$	0.280	0.231	0.413*	0.724**	0.396*	0.322	0.320	0.287	0.386*	0.690**	0.603**	0.616**	1
$x_{12}$	0.097	0.066	0.215	0.556**	0.174	0.267	0.135	0.183	0.269	0.493**	0.539**	0.437*	0.766**	1

Significance of correlation coefficient different from zero: ** represents $p<0.01$, * represents $p<0.05$.