Max Roser
@UniOfOxford researcher. @OurWorldInData founder.
Data to understand the big global problems and research that helps to make progress against them.
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Daily new confirmed cases of COVID-19 per million people
The line is blue when the rate of positive tests in a country is low – this means a country performs many tests relative to the size of the outbreak.
Red indicates a high positive rate of tests. This suggests that the true number of infections may...
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Israel’s second wave.
Like in early April the case rate is again higher than 50 new cases per million per day. The line color shows that the country is now testing more widely though – the positive rate is now 2% (but the rate is also rising).
[Source: ourworldindata.org/grapher/rate-o…] pic.twitter.com/ttdBsoHQX6
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Under-Five Mortality
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Exemplars in Global Health: Q&A with Dr. Niranjan Bose
The newly launched Exemplars in Global Health brings together researchers, funders, and collaborators from around the world.
U.S. could see 100,000 new Covid-19 cases per day, Fauci says - STAT
The warning from the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases came as the number of new cases hovering around 40,000 per day.
Separation of static and dynamic data in json format to reduce the size of file · Issue #86 · owid/covid-19-data
I would like to suggest to seperate static and dynamic data in the .json format to reduce the amount of data. I will provide an example: { "continent": "Asia", --> static &qu...
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Data on COVID-19 (coronavirus) confirmed cases, deaths, and tests • All countries • Updated daily by Our World in Data - owid/covid-19-data
Thread by @MaxCRoser: Early in the pandemic we noticed that some countries responded very successfully to the #COVID19 pandemic. We teamed up with colleagues arou…
Thread by @MaxCRoser: Early in the pandemic we noticed that some countries responded very successfully to the #COVID19 pandemic. We teamed uplleagues around the world and studied 3 countries in depth – to learn how they were so much more succesful....
Emerging COVID-19 success story: Vietnam’s commitment to containment
Vietnam is one country which has responded well to the Coronavirus pandemic. How did they do so? In-country experts provide key insights.
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Vietnam has seen very few cases of COVID, and zero (!) confirmed deaths so far.
A large team of Vietnamese epidemiologists studied the country’s successful response in detail.
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This is the timeline of the number of COVID-19 deaths in #Vietnam.
What can the rest of the world learn from Vietnam – how did Vietnam keep the death count at zero?
→ @exemplarshealth’s study of the #COVID19 response of Vietnam ourworldindata.org/covid-exemplar… pic.twitter.com/F69QHGWol0
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Emerging COVID-19 success story: Germany’s strong enabling environment
Germany is one country which has responded well to the Coronavirus pandemic. How did they do so? In-country experts provide key insights.
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Germany is one of the European countries that stands out.
Colleagues from the Robert Koch Institute – Lothar Wieler and Ute Rexroth – and René Gottschalk studied what Germany got right and what we can learn from it
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After an early rapid outbreak Germany bent the curve.
And just as important: the positive rate of tests is low – below 1%.
Lothar Wieler, Ute Rexroth (from the Robert Koch Institute), and René Gottschalk studied what we can learn from Germany’s response.
ourworldindata.org/covid-exemplar… pic.twitter.com/8fn3aCPbHS
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Emerging COVID-19 success story: South Korea learned the lessons of MERS
South Korea is one country which has responded well to the Coronavirus pandemic. How did they do so? In-country experts provide key insights.
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South Korea responded particularly well.
The research team of @AriadneLabs studied how the country did it – and what the rest of the world can learn from Korea
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The case rate in Korea is now 20-times lower than in Europe and 140-times lower than in the US.
We partnered with Harvard's Chan School of Public Health and Brigham and Women’s Hospital to study how Korea achieved this – so that we can all learn from them ourworldindata.org/covid-exemplar… pic.twitter.com/hwCAyonhBp
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How experts use data to identify emerging COVID-19 success stories
How can we identify which countries have responded well to the Coronavirus pandemic? We look at the key metrics that help us identify success stories.
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With epidemiologists @DaveKennID, @A_Seale & @DanielBausch2 we developed the framework to identify the countries that responded successfully.
In this (very data-rich) article we explain how we selected Korea, Germany, and Vietnam.
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A pandemic primer on excess mortality statistics and their comparability across countries
Excess mortality has become a key metric to understand the true impact of the Coronavirus pandemic. But how is excess mortality measured; and what can we learn from cross-country comparisons? Janine Aron and John Muellbauer provide an overview on...
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A big new @OurWorldInData project just got published.
Janine Aron, John Muellbauer, @_HannahRitchie, and @charliegiattino studied the data on excess mortality statistics.
How comparable is this data across countries? Which country was hit hardest?
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Updated estimates of the impact of COVID-19 on global poverty
Using the newly launched growth forecasts from the Global Economic Prospects , we can update the estimate of the pandemic on global poverty. The new growth forecasts contain two scenarios—baseline and downside—allowing us to explore...
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New estimates of the impact of COVID-19 on global poverty.
The orange line is the baseline scenario – global growth contracting by about 5% in 2020.
Red is the downside scenario – global growth contraction of 8% in 2020.
From this good short post: blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/updat… pic.twitter.com/qxsLsweNae
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The Torch of Progress, Ep. 4 - Dr. Max Roser, researcher and founder of Our World in Data
In the fourth episode of The Torch of Progress, we talk with Dr. Max Roser, the researcher and editor behind ourworldindata.org. Key Topics: - Our World in D...
Don't De-Anonymize Scott Alexander
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I have signed the petition to the New York Times to ask them to not expose the identity of Scott Alexander who is the pseudonymous author of Slate Star Codex – the most interesting corner of the internet.
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Kirk Smith, Towering Figure in Environmental Science, Dies at 73
Dr. Smith’s meticulous research established household pollution as one of the leading causes of disease and death in the developing world.
Rt Live
We're calculating up-to-date values for Rt — the number to watch to measure COVID spread
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Estimates of the reproductive number from rt.live for US states:
Chart on the left: The situation two months ago.
The Rt was above 1 in only 5 states.
Chart on the right: The situation now.
The Rt is above 1 in 29 US states. pic.twitter.com/ts6fTd1ASr
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Blog | It's Not Just Testing
The COVID Tracking Project collects and publishes the most complete testing data available for US states and territories.
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The rate of tests that confirmed a case (the positive rate) increased in Texas, Florida, and Arizona.
'It's Not Just Testing' –– covidtracking.com/blog/its-not-j… pic.twitter.com/S0ENYKT05p
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Corona-Warn-App: Fragen und Antworten
Die Corona-Warn-App ist ein wichtiger Helfer, um Infektionsketten nachzuverfolgen und zu unterbrechen. Alles was Sie wissen müssen, finden Sie hier.