Table 3.

Correlations among adverse mentions, negative sentiment, and emotions.

	Death Mention	Side-Effect Mentions	Blood Clot Mentions	Negative Sentiment	Fear/ Sadness/Anger
		r (p)	r (p)	r (p)	r (p)
Death mention		0.414 (<0.001)	0.112 (0.122)	0.235 (0.001)	0.182 (0.012)
Side-effect mentions			0.243 (<0.001)	0.338 (<0.001)	0.207 (0.004)
Blood clot mentions				−0.042 (0.568)	0.316 (<0.001)
Negative sentiment					0.306 (0.001)
COVID-19
Morbidity (per million)	0.186 (<0.001)	0.224 (0.002)	0.257 (<0.001)	−0.008 (0.917)	0.080 (0.280)
Mortality (per million)	0.111 (0.137)	0.061 (0.417)	0.159 (0.033)	0.035 (0.642)	0.089 (0.236)
Country Characteristics
GDP per capita	0.247 (<0.001)	0.222 (0.002)	0.168 (0.022)	0.002 (0.976)	0.231 (0.002)
Total population	0.043 (0.560)	−0.046 (0.525)	−0.072 (325)	−0.027 (713)	0.074 (0.313)
Population density	−0.003 (0.969)	0.093 (0.205)	−0.010 (0.891)	0.056 (0.444)	0.136 (0.063)
Literacy rate	0.173 (0.018)	0.132 (0.071)	0.205 (0.005)	0.039 (0.592)	0.274 (<0.001)
Democracy index	0.358 (<0.001)	0.259 (<0.001)	0.296 (<0.001)	0.008 (0.919)	0.241 (0.002)
Institutional quality	0.340 (<0.001)	0.243 (<0.001)	0.226 (0.002)	−0.029 (0.687)	0.235 (<0.001)
Human development index	0.280 (<0.001)	0.217 (0.003)	0.238 (<0.001)	−0.019 (0.796)	0.259 (<0.001)