Table 2.

Results of the linear model testing the association between the relative interest in coronavirus memes (Google Trends index) and total number of COVID-19 cases per one million inhabitants and percentage 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 27% variation in data (adjusted R²).

Variable	Estimate	SE	LL	UL	t(86)	p
(Intercept)	5.047	1.018	3.024	7.070	4.959	<0.001
Number of COVID-19 cases per 1M inhabitants of a country (log10 transformed)	0.573	0.145	0.285	0.861	3.954	<0.001
Number of internet users in a country (log10 transformed)	−0.619	0.132	−0.882	−0.356	−4.675	<0.001