Table 1.
Country-specific Pearson correlation coefficients for news coverage and global and domestic COVID-19 incidence, volumes of Reddit comments, and volumes of Wikipedia page views; domestic COVID-19 incidence and volumes of Reddit comments and Wikipedia views; and global COVID-19 incidence and volumes of Reddit comments and Wikipedia views.
| Country | Global incidence of COVID-19 | P value | Country incidence of COVID-19 | P value | Reddit comments | P value | Wikipedia page views | P value | |
| Italy | |||||||||
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News | 0.59 | .04 | 0.92 | <.001 | 0.43 | .17 | 0.71 | .009 |
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Global incidence of COVID-19 | 1 | N/Aa | —b | N/A | –0.42 | .18 | –0.01 | .97 |
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Country incidence of COVID-19 | — | N/A | 1 | N/A | 0.30 | .34 | 0.64 | .02 |
| United Kingdom | |||||||||
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News | 0.83 | <.001 | 0.74 | .006 | 0.50 | .10 | 0.62 | .03 |
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Global incidence | 1 | N/A | — |
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–0.04 | .90 | 0.09 | .77 |
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Country incidence | — | N/A | 1 | N/A | –0.15 | .64 | –0.04 | .91 |
| United States | |||||||||
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News | 0.84 | <.001 | 0.79 | .002 | 0.70 | .01 | 0.64 | .03 |
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Global incidence | 1 | N/A | — | N/A | 0.25 | .44 | 0.17 | .60 |
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Country incidence | — | N/A | 1 | N/A | 0.16 | .62 | 0.08 | .81 |
| Canada | |||||||||
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News | 0.82 | .001 | 0.71 | .01 | 0.73 | .007 | 0.59 | .04 |
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Global incidence | 1 | N/A | — | N/A | 0.23 | .46 | 0.06 | .85 |
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Country incidence | — | N/A | 1 | N/A | 0.05 | .87 | –0.10 | .76 |
aN/A: not applicable.
b—: not determined.