Table 1 Comparisons of daily AMR news counts by November and non-November months and by year, stratified by media language

Mean daily counts

13.24

5.70

Standard deviation

18.24

8.83

Median daily counts

8

3

Range of daily counts

0–335

0–81

Difference in daily counts. (z-score based on Wilcoxon–Mann–Whitney test) by year in non-Nov. versus:

 Nov. 2015

− 0.26

− 2.49*

 Nov. 2016

− 2.02*

− 4.86***

 Nov. 2017

− 0.65

− 0.57

 Nov. 2018

− 2.19*

− 0.22

Differences in daily counts among years (Kruskal Wallis test)^a

11.24*

70.84***

Post-hoc Dunn’s pairwise comparison between years (z-score)

 2015 versus 2016

− 2.61*

− 4.53***

 2015 versus 2017

− 3.13*

− 7.49***

 2015 versus 2018

− 1.88

− 7.05***

 2016 versus 2017

− 0.52

− 2.96**

 2016 versus 2018

0.73

− 2.53*

 2017 versus 2018

1.24

0.44