Table 1.

Results of the linear model testing the association between the relative interest in coronavirus memes (Google Trends index for search string: “coronavirus meme”) and total number of deaths due to COVID-19 per one million inhabitants and the number of internet users in different countries. Estimates of functions slopes are given with standard errors (SE), 95% confidence intervals (LL–lower confidence intervals, UL–upper confidence intervals) and t–test (with residual degree of freedom). Model explained 33% variation in data (adjusted R²).

Variable	Estimate	SE	LL	UL	t(87)	p
(Intercept)	2.998	0.390	2.221	3.774	7.676	<0.001
Number of deaths per 1M inhabitants of a country (log10 transformed)	0.220	0.051	0.118	0.322	4.301	<0.001
Number of internet users in a country (log10 transformed)	−0.319	0.056	−0.430	−0.208	−5.708	<0.001