In this section, we present results for the 30 countries used for model specification and tuning and compare with the overall results in order to access the extent to which tuning and model specification may have affected results for these countries. We experimented with different model specifications and combinations of features on a subset of data consisting of 30 countries, prior to applying our models to the entire collection of countries. Table 2 -2 presents the model performance metrics for both the entire collection of 72 countries and for the subset of 30 countries used for model specification and tuning. Model performance was slightly diminished on the entire collection of countries compared with the 30 countries used for model specification and tuning. In part, the poorer performance can be explained by the fact that the average number of articles per week in the entire collection of countries was lower than in the 30 countries used for model specification -0.14 articles per week versus 3.50 articles per week. We have shown that in general our models perform best on country-disease pairs that receive substantial news coverage.