Table 4.

Results of the GLM testing the association between the occurrence of 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. 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 37% variation in data (McFadden pseudo-R²).

Variable	OR	LL	UL	z(209)	p
(Intercept)	<0.0001	<0.0001	0.0000	−7.499	<0.001
Number of COVID-19 cases per 1M inhabitants of a country (log10 transformed)	3.623	2.244	6.192	4.999	<0.001
Number of internet users in a country (log10 transformed)	2.056	1.689	2.588	6.645	<0.001