Monthly Archives: March 2020

COVID-19 growth rates by country

Posted on March 26, 2020 by colinmathers

Nice new site http://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/ that plots time trends in cases and deaths, total numbers and rates per million population. The time axis is days since 100+ cases/deaths or days since 1 case/death per million population. I’ve attached screenshots of cases/million … Continue reading →

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Covid-19 update

Posted on March 25, 2020 by colinmathers

worldometers.info now also reports coronavirus cases and deaths as rates per million population. I’ve done some updated plots for confirmed case rates, reported death rates, and apparent case fatality rates (CFR). The latter are calculated simply as reported deaths per … Continue reading →

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Looking at the COVID-19 statistics on day 3

Posted on March 19, 2020 by colinmathers

I live just a couple of kilometres from the border of Switzerland with France, and last Monday evening the border was closed except for frontaliers (who live across the border from work) and those with urgent reasons.  We are now … Continue reading →

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Declining freedom in the world

Posted on March 10, 2020 by colinmathers

Last week, Freedom House released its 2020 annual report on global freedom. The report documents trends in every region of the world of declining political and civil freedom: “In every region of the world, democracy is under attack by populist … Continue reading →

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