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. 2020 Oct 12;22(10):e21597. doi: 10.2196/21597

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

News 0.59 .04 0.92 <.001 0.43 .17 0.71 .009

Global incidence of COVID-19 1 N/Aa b N/A –0.42 .18 –0.01 .97

Country incidence of COVID-19 N/A 1 N/A 0.30 .34 0.64 .02
United Kingdom

News 0.83 <.001 0.74 .006 0.50 .10 0.62 .03

Global incidence 1 N/A
–0.04 .90 0.09 .77

Country incidence N/A 1 N/A –0.15 .64 –0.04 .91
United States

News 0.84 <.001 0.79 .002 0.70 .01 0.64 .03

Global incidence 1 N/A N/A 0.25 .44 0.17 .60

Country incidence N/A 1 N/A 0.16 .62 0.08 .81
Canada

News 0.82 .001 0.71 .01 0.73 .007 0.59 .04

Global incidence 1 N/A N/A 0.23 .46 0.06 .85

Country incidence N/A 1 N/A 0.05 .87 –0.10 .76

aN/A: not applicable.

b—: not determined.