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The second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic

Posted on August 28, 2020 by colinmathers

Today, I took another look at the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic using data on confirmed cases downloaded from the Johns Hopkins University CCSE data repository. This post focuses mostly on western European countries, with a few others like … Continue reading →

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An update on coronavirus in Geneva and Victoria

Posted on August 5, 2020 by colinmathers

Switzerland currently bans entry from countries with more than 60 new infections per 100,000 population in the last 14 days. Geneva passed that threshold on 27th July, and passed 100 new cases per 100,000 on 1 August. So if Geneva … Continue reading →

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An out-of-control pandemic in most world regions

Posted on July 6, 2020 by colinmathers

I downloaded the Covid-19 data up to 5 July from the JHU Github today and plotted smoothed new cases per day (average over last 7 days) as rates per million population by world region. The dramatic difference in trajectories for … Continue reading →

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Country progress to 9 May in controlling COVID-19 epidemics

Posted on May 10, 2020 by colinmathers

I downloaded the latest COVID-19 data for reported deaths and confirmed cases from Johns Hopkins this morning to see whether the data supports the relaxation of social isolation that is starting to happen in many countries. The USA now has … Continue reading →

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How does population age structure affect overall case fatality ratios for COVID-19?

Posted on April 1, 2020 by colinmathers

The first graph shows coronavirus deaths in Italy up to 26 March 2020 by sex and age. The overall case fatality rate for lab confirmed cases is 11.1% and 70% of deaths are male (closer to 80% below age 80, … Continue reading →

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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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