#POPULATION

Star:Line Chicago

StarLineChicago

According to the CDC, as of today the coronavirus has taken at least 124,976 American lives, comparable to the population of Norman, OK, the 222nd-largest American city. #WearAMask #WashYourHands

Markku Peltonen

MarkkuPeltonen

(English version)Mortality and use of intensive care due to coronavirus in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Iceland and Estonia; updated with data from yesterdays (2.4) reports.Fig 1(6). Mortality per million population:

Drew Holden

DrewHolden360

Quick thread.It’s become fashionable to criticize the US response to coronavirus. Perhaps that’s warranted. But cases are spiking across Europe and it’s gone unremarked across much of the media.I ran

Max Roser

MaxCRoser

Many countries in Africa do only very, very, very few tests for COVID.[more data on this in our database: https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&time=latest&pickerSort=asc&pickerMetri

Elon Musks’ Baby Mama

britnibaker

Herd immunity was a theory introduced in 1930's & referred to NATURAL, not artificial immunity. They adapted it into vaccines & the theory still only states herd immunity to work

2Tapu

2TAPU

Māori and Pasifika New Zealanders are helping save Aotearoa at a higher rate per head of population and we are also most at risk per head of population. My little

PoliMath

politicalmath

I'm need everyone shitting on Arkansas to get real humble real fast since if you multiplied their COVID death count by a hundred you wouldn't even be at half the

Christopher Bouzy

cbouzy

In approximately 5 months, we are going to get overwhelmed by the Brazilian variant(s) because we continue to ignore the crisis in Brazil. Thankfully, U.S. news outlets are beginning to

Mathew Nicolson

EyjarSkeggi

Still in awe that Faroe (population: 48,000) publishes election results from 57 different counting areas, meaning you can learn things like the village of Dalur (population: 48) is really into

Justin Fox

foxjust

I had been struggling for a while to get my head around the argument, made by @BillHanage, @NateSilver538 and others on this website today, that antibody test results from places

Ben Gardiner

BendyGardiner

Results from the first high-quality antibody study for Covid-19 are out, and confirm an IFR estimate of at least 1.1% (confidence interval: 0.5% to 2.5%):https://www.hug-ge.ch/medias/communique-presse/seroprevalence-covid-19-premiere-estimationSadly,

Henry Dodds

henrydodds

My vision for Britain in 2030 (thread):- well on the way to net zero carbon- all new homes built to Passivhaus standard- per capita GDP top three in Europe- 100MB

Los Angeles Times

latimes

The coronavirus pandemic upended the economy — particularly the lives of immigrants, who might not be eligible for all of the assistance distributed to citizens. @ldarmiento reports:https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-10-16/revers

Brian

LIBaymen10

Alright, here's a little Suffolk County, NY analysis for you. The topic: General population risk versus nursing home risk. Overall, there have been 2,012 deaths attributed to COVID in Suffolk

Josh Scully

JoshAlexCairo

You could house every human on the planet in their own typically English-sized house, place all those houses side-by-side, and it would all fit inside Texas.Overpopulation is a deflective racist

Daniel Sohege

stand_for_all

Thread: There's so much wrong, or, to put it charitably, misrepresented in this piece by @ClareFoges that it is hard to know where to begin. So for ease, let's start