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Table 7.

Distribution of Pearson correlation coefficient values for sliding window-based global news sentiment regarding Italy and COVID-19-related statistics in that country

Variables	$r_{0}$ (No shift) 26/03 onwards	$r_{1}$ (1-day shift) 27/03 onwards	$r_{2}$ (2-day shift) 28/03 onwards	$r_{3}$ (3-day shift) 29/03 onwards	$r_{4}$ (4-day shift) 30/03 onwards	$r_{5}$ (5-day shift) 31/03 onwards
Negativity, no. of cases	0.39	0.42	0.44	0.43	0.42	0.45
Negativity, no. of deaths	0.38	0.40	0.40	0.41	0.48	0.50