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NEW: big international Covid data thread, focusing on the contest between vaccines & variantsFirst to the UK, where things are looking very good. The vaccine effect is still crystal clear,
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NEW: Monday 23 Nov update of Covid-19 trajectoriesIt’s been a while... but these are the charts I’m going to be using to track the rise and fall of autumn/winter outbreaksThis
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NEW: we’ve updated our excess mortality tracker, the gold-standard measure for Covid deaths, allowing like-for-like comparisons btwn countriesUK had 54,000 more deaths than usual in March & April vs 30,000
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NEW with @clivecooksonHospital mortality data suggests the autumn resurgence of Covid-19 is proving less lethal than the spring, but is it that simple?What’s going on beneath the surface, and is
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I’ve noticed a lot of people slipping up on how they interpret UK Covid-19 prevalence & testing data, so here’s a very brief thread on how to interpret figures from
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Absolutely damning data on the complete failure to follow Covid-19 guidelines in the UK• Only 18% of people self-isolate after developing symptoms• Only 11% quarantine after being told by NHS
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NEW with @ChrisGiles_ & @DanielThomasLDN: UK’s big cities are shadows of their usual selves, but smaller urban areas have rebounded https://www.ft.com/content/203cc83c-72b0-49c9-bea5-6fb38735a8fcWhat’s driving the divergence? Chart
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NEW with @ChrisGiles_:https://www.ft.com/content/c9db4c66-5971-11ea-a528-dd0f971febbcThe UK has a regional inequality problem, but it's much more nuanced than the typical hot take.You've probably seen a version of this chart before,
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Clarifying last tweet:Details of the Hong Kong reinfection show that worry about risk to *the reinfected individual* is misplaced, but they *can* go on to infect *others*, showing that current
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NEW: I’ve updated the chart of new cases in England & Wales to show two critical parts of the story:• Differentiating between places with an isolated cluster (Swindon’s Iceland depot)
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As ever, some great debate going on in the FT comments section, this time on the pros and cons of working from home vs returning to the office https://www.ft.com/content/35acdb76-fd57-4ea5-9650-9d7dc3956dc5?commentID=634a9d29-664a-4c1f-b2fb
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NEW: today we’ve launched a live dashboard tracking the UK’s economic recovery in real-time.We’re using fast data (lagged by as little as one day) on transactions, footfall & job ads
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