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Early in the pandemic we noticed that some countries responded very successfully to the #COVID19 pandemic.We teamed up with colleagues around the world and studied 3 countries in depth –
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I don’t understand how it is acceptable that newspapers publish charts without publishing the data. Either their data is bad. Then they shouldn’t publish the charts.Or it is indeed true
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The UK that has now the highest rate of confirmed deaths from #COVID19 worldwide.[Link to the source: https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&time=latest&deathsMetric=true&dailyFreq=true&per
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That @Worldometers became a data source that the public – and even journalists and presidents – trusted was a disaster within a disaster.CNN now investigated their work and who they
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On January 21 both South Korea and the US had 1 confirmed case of #COVID19. Since that day the outbreak followed very different trajectories.[From our comparative perspective on the data
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We just updated all our #COVID19 charts & data for Monday 20th April: http://OurWorldInData.org/coronavirus ¯¯¯This is how Germany and the UK compare.(Germany's population is larger. And both countries had the outbreak
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• You can now switch our world maps to maps that focus on a particular region.• Try it out here: http://ourworldindata.org/grapher/total-confirmed-cases-of-covid-19-per-million-peopleBig thanks to @MarcelGerber9 who contributed this new feature to
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A colleague asked whether there are 'low-hanging fruits' to improve the response to the pandemic.I know two for all those who publish original data:– Publish data in a csv file.
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My two worries are:– That this correlation is do a large extent due to the very limited testing in poor countries.– That this correlation will soon be the other way
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Why do people – including journalists – rely on http://worldometers.info for data on the pandemic?It has big errors. It has been like this for weeks. And it's not getting better.
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Without testing there is no data – and without data we can not know what is happening in the world right now.We need to know how much different countries actually
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