Table 1.

Continent-wise ordinary least square model estimates for COVID cases.

Source	Value	Standard error	t	Pr > \|t\|	Lower bound (95%)	Upper bound (95%)
Africa
Intercept	−975.375	1171.583	−0.833	0.410	−3336.546	1385.795
TotalCO₂	0.138	0.008	16.807	<0.0001	0.122	0.155
CO₂PerCap	−1726.210	464.354	−3.717	0.001	−2662.054	−790.365
PM_2.5	54.080	24.737	2.186	0.034	4.226	103.934
GDP	0.621	0.234	2.650	0.011	0.149	1.094
R²	0.915

America
Intercept	−9799.119	13,987.621	−0.701	0.489	−38,407.016	18,808.779
TotalCO₂	0.183	0.034	5.425	<0.0001	0.114	0.252
NetMig	0.036	0.019	1.936	0.063	−0.002	0.074
Refuge pop	−0.954	0.499	−1.911	0.066	−1.975	0.067
TotPop	0.003	0.000	7.162	<0.0001	0.002	0.003
R²	0.968

Asia
Intercept	−252.500	17,538.584	−0.014	0.989	−36,837.345	36,332.346
N₂O	−0.010	0.073	−0.131	0.897	−0.162	0.143
PM_2.5	497.056	313.876	1.584	0.129	−157.678	1151.789
GDP.gr	−2795.361	2849.423	−0.981	0.338	−8739.153	3148.432
NetMig	−0.067	0.014	−4.732	0.000	−0.096	−0.037
R²	0.744

Europe
Intercept	−308,530.573	123,353.089	−2.501	0.016	−557,132.388	−59,928.758
LEB	3862.814	1578.644	2.447	0.018	681.266	7044.362
TotPop	0.003	0.000	11.664	<0.0001	0.002	0.003
WS	−1587.322	2675.880	−0.593	0.556	−6980.203	3805.560
R²	0.785