Table 3.

Results of the GLM testing the association between the occurrence of interest in coronavirus memes (Google Trends index) and total number of deaths due to COVID-19 per one million inhabitants and percentage of internet users in different countries. Odds ratio (OR) with 95% confidence intervals (LL–lower confidence intervals, UL–upper confidence intervals) and Wald z–test (with residual degree of freedom). Model explained 33% variation in data (McFadden pseudo-R²).

Variable	OR	LL	UL	z(186)	p
(Intercept)	0.00005	0.0004	<0.0001	−6.695	<0.001
Number of deaths per 1M inhabitants of a country (log10 transformed)	3.431	2.142	5.830	4.852	<0.001
Number of internet users in a country (log10 transformed)	5.082	3.153	8.873	6.193	<0.001