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. 2022 Oct 10;19(19):12969. doi: 10.3390/ijerph191912969

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The associations between the interest in coronavirus memes and real coronavirus statistics in different countries. The relative interest (measured as the Google Trends index) in coronavirus memes (search string: “coronavirus meme”) in different countries and its relation to (A) total number of deaths due to COVID-19 per one million inhabitants of a given country and (B) the total number of cases per one million inhabitants. The probability of occurrence of interest in coronavirus memes in different countries in relation to (C) the total number of deaths due to COVID-19 per one million inhabitants of a given country and (D) the total number of cases per one million inhabitants. For (A,B), a linear regression was fitted with a 95% confidence interval, and for (C,D), a GLM with binomial error distribution was fitted with a 95% confidence interval. The data points are transparent for better visibility of the overlapping values.