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NEW: Sun 5 April update of coronavirus trajectoriesDaily new deaths:• US now recording more daily deaths than any country in the world since outbreaks began• UK still on similar path
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Now subnational region daily deaths:• New Jersey heading toward NY as the US’ urban north-east emerges as the new global epicentre• In the UK, London and the Midlands now both
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NEW: Sat 4 April update of coronavirus trajectoriesDaily new deaths:• US about to go clear of Spain for most daily deaths of any country in the world• UK on steeper
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NEW: Fri 3 April update of coronavirus trajectoriesFirst, daily new deaths• US & UK both likely to pass Spain for peak daily deaths• Daily death tolls in the thousands to
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One more new chart thread today:A cautionary tale for those who think lockdowns will end overnight and life will go straight back to normal.Movie theatres were told to close when
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NEW: in yesterday’s UK gov press conf, we heard UK road traffic had risenWe’ve been tracking this at @FinancialTimes for weeks using data from @TomTom, and it’s true:Londoners are on
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NEW: Thurs 2 April update of coronavirus trajectoriesFirst, daily new cases• American exceptionalism. More than 20k new cases per day, each day more than the last• Spain & Italy both
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My brilliant colleagues @C_BruceLockhart and @BobHaslett illustrate some important points here:• There are major doubts over the Chinese numbers • But there’s less doubting the general pattern — largely containing
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NEW: Sunday 29 March update of coronavirus mortality trajectories• UK still tracking Italy. Death toll doubling every 2.8 days• US curve still steepening, could reach 1,000 new daily deaths within
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ThreadHere’s the problem with per-capita stats for coronavirus:• Switzerland has seen ~same pace of outbreak as everywhere else, but its per-cap figure is higher coz it has a low population•
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Now onto *daily new deaths*:• Daily death tolls flattening in Italy & Spain: each new day brings fewer deaths• But in UK & US the death toll is accelerating. More
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NEW: Wed 1 April update of coronavirus trajectoriesFirst, daily new cases (rather than yesterday’s weekly version)One of these is not like the others.Many outbreaks are slowing but in the US
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