Table 1.

Regression Results for risk of confirmed cases as predicted by Inform Index in both split and composite form; where for p-values “***” represents p < 0.001 “**” represents p < 0.01 and “*” represents p < 0.05.

	Split form			Composite form
Date (all dates are 2020)	R2	Significant p-values	Top weights	R2	Significant p-values	Top weights
March 2	0.17	Stringency***	Stringency (0.64)	0.16	Stringency***	Stringency (0.84)
March 16	0.30	None	Social economics vulnerability (0.14) Lack of coping capacity (0.13)	0.21	Inform index*, A65abp*	Inform index (0.48), A65abp (0.44)
March 30	0.33	None	Institutional (0.17) Lack of coping capacity (0.15)	0.23	Inform index*, A65abp**	Inform index (0.46), A65abp (0.54)
April 13	0.40	None	Institutional (0.16) Lack of coping capacity (0.16)	0.28	Inform index**, A65abp***	Inform index (0.46), A65abp (0.54)
April 27	0.43	None	Institutional (0.16) Lack of coping capacity (0.17)	0.30	Inform index***, A65abp*	Inform index (0.56), A65abp (0.43)
May 11	0.40	None	Infrastructure (0.13) Lack of coping capacity (0.17)	0.27	Inform index***	Inform index (0.69), A65abp (0.29)