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Max Roser 235d ago
Three charts on why I think we are still in the early days of the pandemic and why I'm very pessimistic about the coming months. 1/ The number of daily new cases is rising continuously in many large countries. [Source ]
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Max Roser 123d ago
Iceland is now suffering a steep rise in COVID-19 cases. [→ ] Around 100(!) of these new cases were traced back to a tourist couple who tested positive on arrival and were asked to self-isolate, but did not do as they were told:
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Max Roser 246d ago
The UK that has now the highest rate of confirmed deaths from #COVID19 worldwide. [Link to the source: ]
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Max Roser 194d ago
The rate of cases in the US is now 20-times higher than in the EU. The US is not looking worse because of testing. In fact every country in Europe is now testing better than the US (see next tweet). [source: ]
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Our World in Data 256d ago
Without data we can not understand the pandemic. And so we set ourselves the goal of building the most helpful global dashboard to understand what is happening. Now it is out: 👇A thread on what you can do with our new #COVID19 Data Explorer.
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Max Roser 216d ago
An update on the comparison between the EU and the US. The population of the US is 330 million The population of the EU is 446 million [The source is our Data Explorer where you can view deaths, tests and more ]
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Max Roser 104d ago
Even after only 10 months: the differences between countries are very, very large. These are the 10 countries that suffered the worst death rate from #COVID19 in comparison with 10 countries that had a low death rate. [source with all countries: ]
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Max Roser 202d ago
The weekly update on the contrast between the US and the EU. At the source you can switch to deaths or see the country by country data on testing
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Max Roser 246d ago
It is not true that all countries failed. The very opposite stands out, while some suffer prolonged outbreaks, others responded very well and prevented large outbreaks or turned them around quickly. → All countries, all metrics in our Data Explorer:
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Max Roser 194d ago
One way to see just how fast the pandemic is spreading now: In the last week the world confirmed 1.5 million cases –– more cases in one week than in the entire pandemic up to April 9. [source ]
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Max Roser 177d ago
The death rate in the US in comparison with the death rates in Western Europe. [source: ]
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Max Roser 98d ago
The rise of confirmed cases in Europe is very rapid. – This is showing the 7-day rolling average. Over the last week 138,500 cases were confirmed every day. – The doubling time of confirmed cases for Europe as a whole is two weeks. [interactive source ]
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Hannah Ritchie 176d ago
Earlier in the pandemic Japan had managed to get the outbreak under control. A couple of months on, it's now confirming more than 1,000 new cases per day – well above it's earlier 'peak'. From our data explorer:
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Max Roser 246d ago
Of all the European countries it is now unfortunately the UK that has the highest rate of confirmed deaths from #COVID19. [The link to the chart: ]
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Hannah Ritchie 183d ago
Just completed our daily COVID update. Here is the 7-day average of daily new confirmed cases globally. World is confirming around 250,000 new cases each day. Explore the trends for any country in our data explorer:
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Max Roser 234d ago
Here is a comparison between the US and many European countries. All in per capita terms. [direct link to this chart ]
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Max Roser 254d ago
The differences in the death rate across European countries are very large. This is a screenshot from our new Data Explorer, there you can add any other country in the world you are interested in
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Max Roser 108d ago
Some countries suffered a terrible pandemic. The chart shows those with that suffered the highest death rate. [The full list you find here ] But on the other hand there are other countries that did much better. This is great because it means…
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Our World in Data 134d ago
Worldwide there are 13 countries that have suffered a cumulative death rate higher than 500 per million. 5 countries in Europe: UK Sweden Belgium Italy Spain and 8 countries in the Americas: Peru Bolivia USA Chile Brazil Ecuador Mexico Panama [Source ]
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Edouard Mathieu 164d ago
Following data corrections by Peru and the United Kingdom this week, here is an up-to-date version of our chart of cumulative confirmed deaths per million people, for the 10 countries hardest hit by COVID-19. [Source: ]
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Max Roser 248d ago
Of all the European countries it is now the UK that has the highest rate of confirmed deaths due to #COVID19. [This chart is made with our new interactive Coronavirus Data Explorer ]
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Max Roser 223d ago
Here is how the death rates compare. Shown is the average over the last week. Because deaths are following cases I’d expect that after the recent divergence in case rates we’ll see divergence in death rates in the weeks ahead. [source: ]
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Matthias #WashYourHands Egger 109d ago
Switzerland chasing the UK and the Netherlands. What will Italy and Germany do? Join the race or flatten the curve?
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Jason Crawford 131d ago
*What* happened to covid testing in the last ~2 weeks? Looks like it fell off a cliff
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Claire Lehmann 253d ago
There's been lots of attention on Sweden for being a contrary nation w/ regard to policy. But not a great deal on Australia, which has been contrary w/ regard to outcome. We may have the lowest per capita death rate of any Western nation (lower than NZ)
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Max Roser 218d ago
Several European countries report that rates of confirmed #COVID19 cases are increasing again. [view in our Data Explorer ]
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Max Roser 157d ago
Worldwide 800,000 people are confirmed to have died of COVID-19 by now. Most of the victims – 22% – were Americans. (The US accounts for only 4% of the world population.) [→ all data for all countries: ]
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Max Roser 129d ago
Current doubling times in European countries: • In Spain cases doubled in the last month • In France in the last 3 weeks • In Austria & Hungary in the last 10 days • In the Czech Republic in the last week [Our source (with global data): ]
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Max Roser 253d ago
How do the rates of confirmed deaths due to #COVID19 compare across Scandinavia? → This is a screenshot of our new Data Explorer where you compare the data on testing, cases, and deaths for all countries in the world. → Here it is:
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Edouard Mathieu 125d ago
Latest COVID-19 positive rates in Western Europe: 🇪🇸 Spain: 10.5% 🇫🇷 France: 5.8% 🇧🇪 Belgium: 3.9% 🇳🇱 Netherlands: 3.9% 🇵🇹 Portugal: 3.1% 🇮🇹 Italy: 2.8% 🇬🇧 United Kingdom: 1.7% 🇩🇪 Germany: 0.8% (Source: )
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Max Roser 224d ago
And the USA in comparison with several European countries which successfully bent the curve. The US also had the advantage of having a later outbreak than all of them. [in our Explorer you can compare with all countries in the world ]
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Alistair Haimes 112d ago
Covid deaths, UK and Sweden. This could get very awkward.
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Max Roser 243d ago
The UK was in a better position to respond well to the pandemic because the outbreak happened much later: In March it took 14 days until the UK was at the same rate as Italy. But sadly the UK didn’t respond well and now caught up with Italy. [source ]
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Edouard Mathieu 120d ago
All of 's data on COVID-19 testing has just been updated. Latest positive rates in Western Europe: 🇪🇸 Spain: 12.3% 🇫🇷 France: 8% 🇳🇱 Netherlands: 6% 🇧🇪 Belgium: 4.2% 🇵🇹 Portugal: 3.6% 🇮🇹 Italy: 2.9% 🇬🇧 UK: 2.2% 🇩🇪 Germany: 1.1% (Source: )
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Max Roser 226d ago
The two centers of the outbreak are now the Arabian Peninsula and South America. Nine of the ten countries that currently report more than 100 new cases per million people per day are in these two regions. [Source ]
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Max Roser 217d ago
New feature in our Data Explorer. – When interviewing users realized that many of you want to compare countries that are similar. – So built this tool where you can sort the country selector list by a particular metric. →
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Max Roser 186d ago
The number of deaths in the EU keep on falling. The current average of 81 deaths per day in the last week is the lowest death count since the start. [source (including data for all other regions in the world) ]
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Max Roser 195d ago
This map shows the share of tests that are positive; that’s the metric that I find most important to understand the pandemic. Countries that are red are currently not testing adequately in relation to the size of their outbreak. [Interactive: ]
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Edouard Mathieu 255d ago
.'s new Coronavirus Data Explorer brings together our global data on testing for COVID-19, and the counts of confirmed cases and deaths: Here are four examples of graphs that you can create with it, with just a few clicks.
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Edouard Mathieu 195d ago
Over the last 7 days, Bahrain is the country that has found the most #COVID19 cases in its population—followed by Oman, Panama, South Africa, and the United States. [Source: ]
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Esteban Ortiz-Ospina 215d ago
🚨New COVID data tool🚨 Now our COVID charts include a "Table" tab, so you can explore the data directly in a sortable table format Try it out in our data explorer:
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Global Health Observ 256d ago
Coronavirus Pandemic Data Explorer - Our World in Data #COVID19 #GPHO
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Max Roser 211d ago
The US data that I find most concerning currently isn’t the case count, but the rate of positive tests. That rate is high (which means, relative to the size of the outbreak the US is testing much less than other rich countries) and rising. [Source ]
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Max Roser 197d ago
The population of the US is 330 million The population of the EU is 446 million [source ]
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Edouard Mathieu 104d ago
All of 's data on COVID-19 testing has just been updated. Latest positive rates in Europe: 🇺🇦 Ukraine: 17.2% 🇵🇱 Poland: 12.3% 🇪🇸 Spain: 10% 🇫🇷 France: 7.5% 🇮🇹 Italy: 6.3% 🇬🇧 United Kingdom: 5.9% 🇷🇺 Russia: 2.8% 🇩🇪 Germany: 1.4% (Source: )
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Max Roser 248d ago
Uruguay is a country that stands out in its response to the pandemic. This shows the rate of confirmed deaths due to #COVID19 across Latin America. Uruguay is at the very bottom. [This chart is made with our new interactive Coronavirus Data Explorer ]
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Max Roser 220d ago
Yes, I'm also very impressed. Crucially Uruguay is also the one country in South America that tests well –> see our Data Explorer here
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Edouard Mathieu 126d ago
All of 's data on confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths has just been updated. You can explore it at A crossroads in this new phase of the pandemic: Spain is now confirming more daily deaths per million people than the United States.
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Glen Peters 199d ago
What a difference a few weeks makes... Australia & Norway had very similar trajectories for #COVID19 & both were admired for getting the virus under control early. Then, Australia had a new outbreak...
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Max Roser 183d ago
Italy was one of the hardest-hit countries and back in March every 4th test the country did was positive. Now Italy has one of the very lowest rates of positive COVID-19 tests worldwide: 0.5%. [source (where you can compare with other countries) ]
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Robert Wiblin 93d ago
As COVID-19 takes off again all over the world, the place to track it is the Coronavirus Pandemic Data Explorer:
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Atila Iamarino 250d ago
Passamos os países europeus em número de casos, mas passamos subindo MUITO mais. É uma outra tendência. Não vamos parar nem de longe no número de mortes deles, mesmo se controlássemos nossa epidemia agora. O que estamos longe de fazer.
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Atila Iamarino 223d ago
Mas o Brasil tem a população da Europa, tinha que comparar casos por milhão com a Europa toda. Então, esse intervalo tá ficando cada vez menor.
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Naomi Smith 🇬🇧🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 242d ago
Britain’s 7 day rolling average death toll rose for the 2nd day running. It’s not clear to me at all why we would want to ease lockdown now. #DailyBriefing
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Steven Pinker 256d ago
Our World in Data has added a superb Data Explorer interface to their Coronavirus datasets, updated daily. Get per-capita, not just total, cases & deaths across countries. Answer questions like, Who's doing better (for now), Sweden or Norway?
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Max Roser 185d ago
Europe is still the only world region that bent the curve and brought COVID-19 infections down. All other continents see the number of new cases increase week after week. [source (incl. country data): ]
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Max Roser 209d ago
The weekly update on the comparison between the EU and the US. • The population of the US is 330 million. • The population of the EU is 446 million. [The source is the -Data Explorer where you can also view deaths, tests and more ]
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Max Roser 254d ago
The daily number of deaths in European countries. This is a screenshot from our new Data Explorer: There you can: • add any other country in the world you are interested in • and switch to *per capita* statistics if you want.
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Hiroshi Makita Ph.D. 167d ago
頭打ちになってはいるけど減少に転じていないなぁ。
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Steve Goddard 104d ago
Sweden never locked down, never mandated masks, kept their under-16 schools open, never closed their borders, never closed their restaurants and bars, and have one of the lowest current daily death rates in the world.
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Max Roser 224d ago
There are 14 countries with a population larger than 100 million. • Japan & China bent the curve. The USA and Russia are on a slow decline. • The other 10 largest countries see the number of confirmed cases rise continuously. [interactive ]
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Edouard Mathieu 106d ago
All of 's data on confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths has just been updated. You can explore it at The epicenter of the pandemic is shifting again: Europe now has more daily confirmed cases per million people than any other continent.
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Max Roser 131d ago
The fact that the US is still not managing to test enough – doing much worse than Togo, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, or Latvia – is hard to believe. But that’s the reality, even after 9 months of this pandemic. [source ]
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Steven Pinker 241d ago
Hard to know now which policies against COVID work best, but 1 index is deaths/capita/day, aligned w outbreak. OWID graph shows US doing poorly; Sweden far worse than Norway (& is 1 of the worst rich countries).
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Eric Levi, FRACS 255d ago
Deaths due to COVID per million people (that is, the number of deaths per total population). Some countries are doing better than others. Any guesses which countries are not doing too well?
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Hannah Ritchie 93d ago
Just updated COVID-19 data for 25th Oct World is approaching 0.5M new daily confirmed cases. Where are we seeing the most daily confirmed cases? 🇺🇸 USA: 83k 🇮🇳 India: 50k 🇫🇷 France: 45k 🇷🇺 Russia: 33k 🇧🇷 Brazil: 27k 🇬🇧 UK: 23k (Source: )
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Max Roser 149d ago
Six week ago the US case rate was almost 20-fold higher than the rate in the EU. Since then cases have risen again in the EU and fallen in the US: now the difference is a bit less than 3-fold. [source ]
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Edouard Mathieu 159d ago
All of 's data on confirmed #COVID19 cases and deaths has just been updated. You can explore it at Several large countries in Western Europe (Spain, France, Switzerland, Germany, and Italy) are confirming more and more cases every day.
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Max Roser 202d ago
I agree with you that it is important to open school. But these countries are in a very different situation now. You find the data here By switching to the 'share of positive tests' you can see that the US is also doing much worse in testing than them.
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Edouard Mathieu 96d ago
All of 's data on COVID-19 testing has been updated. Latest positive rates in Europe: 🇨🇿 Czechia: 26.8% 🇵🇱 Poland: 17.5% 🇧🇪 Belgium: 15.2% 🇮🇹 Italy: 10.6% 🇪🇸 Spain: 10.5% 🇫🇷 France: 8.8% 🇬🇧 United Kingdom: 6.5% 🇩🇪 Germany: 2% (Source: )
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Edouard Mathieu 110d ago
All of 's data on COVID-19 testing has just been updated. Latest positive rates in Europe: 🇺🇦 Ukraine: 16.8% 🇪🇸 Spain: 9.4% 🇫🇷 France: 8.9% 🇵🇱 Poland: 8% 🇬🇧 United Kingdom: 5% 🇮🇹 Italy: 3.9% 🇷🇺 Russia: 2.6% 🇩🇪 Germany: 1.4% (Source: )
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Edouard Mathieu 240d ago
Which countries are seeing a rise in #COVID19 cases after an initial decrease? • South Korea: +520% compared to the lowest point • Costa Rica: +300% • Albania: +180% • Uruguay: +170% • Malaysia: +170% • Macedonia: +140% Explore the data here:
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Max Roser 229d ago
NEW: We extended our Coronavirus Pandemic Data Explorer: You now find the data on confirmed cases, deaths, and tests – but also the ratio of tests to confirmed cases [to assess how widely a country is testing] and the case fatality rate.
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jenn 222d ago
What was that the USA was saying about having so many positive COVID-19 cases because they were testing so much more than anyone else? As of yesterday: Canada 87 tests:1 confirmed case USA 14 tests: 1 confirmed case
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Max Roser 173d ago
The rate of positive tests in the US is still high (8.2%) but not increasing. And it is very good to see the number of new confirmed cases coming down. Let’s hope this trend continues! [at the source you find global data for cases, deaths, & tests ]
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Jon 255d ago
The new Our World in Data charting app takes a very well-designed statistical website on Covid-19 statistics and makes it even better. Great, accessible resource for international comparisons of all sorts. --> Daily COVID-19 deaths per million people
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Max Roser 193d ago
Lots of tests and few cases: Happy to see Germany’s positive rate decline to the lowest value yet. Only every 200th test is finding a case of COVID-19. Here you find the data for other countries
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Edouard Mathieu 132d ago
All of 's data on COVID-19 cases and deaths has just been updated. Explore it here: After reaching its lowest point of 269 on July 25, our rolling average for the number of deaths in Europe has been increasing steadily, and is now over 400.
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Edouard Mathieu 137d ago
Large countries in Western Europe are on the same trajectory: more and more cases of COVID-19 are detected every day, and positive rates are rising—indicating that cases are increasing even relative to the number of tests performed. Explore the data here:
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Max Roser 247d ago
The rate of confirmed deaths due to #COVID19 in the UK is now about twice as high as in Germany at the very peak of the outbreak there. [From 's interactive Coronavirus Data Explorer where you can compare any country in the world: ]
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Edouard Mathieu 158d ago
South America is now the continent with the highest cumulative number of confirmed COVID-19 deaths, relative to its population. • South America: 427 deaths per million people • North America: 426 • Europe: 273 • Asia: 27 • Africa: 20 • Oceania: 12
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Edouard Mathieu 105d ago
All of 's data on confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths has just been updated: The number of new cases is rising fast throughout Europe, with the Netherlands, France, Spain, and the United Kingdom at very high levels of daily infections.
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Edouard Mathieu 146d ago
The share of daily PCR tests that are positive is climbing dangerously in Spain, reaching 9.1% as of August 27. [Source: ]
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Jan 🏡🧼😷✋🏻👑🦠 Wildeboer 118d ago
I took Germany and the countries it has borders with. On a per million population basis. It looks really exceptional fir Germany. Let’s hope they can keep the numbers low. Source:
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Koen Swinkels 101d ago
No/low lockdown countries for most of the pandemic are: Belarus, Nicaragua, Sweden, Uruguay See also the Government Stringency Index
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Max Roser 104d ago
Thank you. Yes, you are right. The ECDC data for some countries is only ever available for the day before yesterday – here is the data for the day before yesterday with the two countries included.
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Max Roser 123d ago
More than every second test in Argentina is now confirming a case of COVID-19. [from our database (where you also find the data for other countries): ]
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Hannah Ritchie 230d ago
Cumulative confirmed COVID-19 deaths per capita across Europe. You can explore & compare the metrics for any set of countries in our data explorer here:
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Edouard Mathieu 116d ago
All of 's data on confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths has just been updated. You can explore it at Today's update includes a large addition of 3351 deaths in Argentina due to the inclusion of historical data for the province of Buenos Aires
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Edouard Mathieu 211d ago
All of 's data on COVID-19 testing has been updated for June 29th. You can explore it here: Since reaching its lowest point on June 16th (4.5%), the positivity rate for the United States has been steadily increasing, and is now at 6.5%.
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Edouard Mathieu 231d ago
All of 's data on COVID-19 testing has been updated for 9th June. You can explore it for all countries here: and in our Data Explorer:
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Edouard Mathieu 131d ago
All of 's data on confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths has just been updated for September 17. You can explore it at Our 7-day rolling average for global cases is reaching new records: more than 285,000 cases are now confirmed every day.
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Edouard Mathieu 239d ago
All of 's data on COVID-19 testing has been updated for 1st June. You can explore it for all countries here: and in our Data Explorer:
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Edouard Mathieu 227d ago
All of 's data on COVID-19 testing has been updated for 13th June. You can explore it for all countries here: and in our Data Explorer:
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Edouard Mathieu 220d ago
All of 's data on COVID-19 confirmed cases and deaths has been updated for 20th June. You can explore it for all countries in our Data Explorer:
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Edouard Mathieu 235d ago
Over the last 7 days, Brazil is the country that has confirmed the most #COVID19 deaths in its population—followed by the United Kingdom, Sweden, Peru, and Mexico. [Source: ]
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Max Roser 223d ago
In the -Data Explorer you can compare countries around the world – and select the metrics you are interested in. –> Since many are interested in the US vs EU comparison here is an example of what is possible.
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Edouard Mathieu 161d ago
All of 's data on confirmed #COVID19 cases and deaths has just been updated. You can explore it at The number of confirmed cases has been quickly rising in Paraguay, with now more than 10,000 cumulative cases, and a positive rate of 18%.
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Edouard Mathieu 243d ago
All of 's data on COVID-19 testing has been updated for 28th May. You can explore it for all countries here: and in our Data Explorer:
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Max Roser 97d ago
The current surge of COVID-19 in Europe First the confirmed cases and then to see the relation to the scale of testing the positive-rate. [The source is our Data Explorer where you find data for countries around the world: ]
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Max Roser 168d ago
The confirmed death toll of COVID-19 so far. [by country in our Data Explorer ]
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Cecile Janssens 104d ago
Voor wie (als ik) de ernst van de tweede golf nog niet door had:
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Hannah Ritchie 94d ago
All of 's data on confirmed cases & deaths updated for 24th October. Confirmed cases rising quickly across many countries in Europe. The test positivity rate also rising in these countries. Explore all of the data here:
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Edouard Mathieu 223d ago
All of 's data on COVID-19 testing has been updated for 17th June. You can explore it for all countries here: and in our Data Explorer:
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Francis Su 201d ago
Compare US, Sweden, EU, Japan, Taiwan in daily COVID-19 cases (adjusted for population size). Japan and Taiwan adopted universal mask-wearing early. What do you notice? #WearAMask Choose your own countries to compare:
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Sandra Wirth 105d ago
Wir sollten uns vermehrt mit Deutschland vergleichen. Und davon lernen. Fälle pro Millionen Einwohnern, samt Test-Positivität
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Max Roser 123d ago
A lot looks like back then - same countries doing well, same countries doing poorly - but Italy has switched from bad to relatively good
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Edouard Mathieu 209d ago
All of 's data on COVID-19 testing has been updated (+ 1 new country: 🇹🇬 Togo) for 1st July. You can explore it for all countries here: and in our Data Explorer:
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Oliver Johnson 143d ago
You've probably seen these graphs: cases are way up, even higher than the first wave, and yet deaths are hardly up at all. (All graphs pinched from Our World In Data, because why wouldn't you)
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David Dowdy 154d ago
Spain now has more COVID cases per capita than the US - concentrated in Madrid & Aragon, where seroprevalence is highest. Not consistent with herd immunity.
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Edouard Mathieu 166d ago
All of 's data on confirmed #COVID19 cases and deaths has just been updated for August 13. Since early August, the number of biweekly new confirmed cases in the world has plateaued around 3.6 million:
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Edouard Mathieu 174d ago
All of 's data on confirmed #COVID19 cases and deaths has just been updated for August 5. You can explore it at The 7-day average for daily new cases in 🇪🇸 Spain is now at 3,172, which represents 40% of Spain's first-wave peak on March 31.
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Dina D. Pomeranz 184d ago
Bitte keine falsche Entspannung in Bezug auf Covid-19 in der Schweiz. Der schlechte Trend geht momentan ungebremst weiter:
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Edouard Mathieu 184d ago
All of 's data on #COVID19 testing has just been updated for 26th July. You can explore it at We've also added 🇨🇮 Côte d’Ivoire to our dataset, which now covers 68% of the world's population:
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Edouard Mathieu 221d ago
All of 's data on COVID-19 testing has been updated (+ 1 new country: 🇴🇲 Oman) for 19th June. You can explore it for all countries here: and in our Data Explorer:
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Edouard Mathieu 225d ago
All of 's data on COVID-19 testing has been updated (+ 1 new country: 🇰🇼 Kuwait) for 15th June. You can explore it for all countries here: and in our Data Explorer:
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Edouard Mathieu 235d ago
All of 's data on COVID-19 testing has been updated for 5th June. You can explore it for all countries here: and in our Data Explorer:
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Edouard Mathieu 241d ago
All of 's data on COVID-19 testing has been updated for 30th May. You can explore it for all countries here: and in our Data Explorer:
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Edouard Mathieu 244d ago
All of 's data on COVID-19 testing has been updated for 27th May. You can explore it for all countries here: and in our Data Explorer:
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Edouard Mathieu 169d ago
All of 's data on confirmed #COVID19 cases and deaths has just been updated for August 10. You can explore it at Kosovo has now confirmed more than 10,000 cases, and it currently has one of the highest COVID-19 death rates in the world.
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Max Roser 216d ago
Here is the time-series of the positive rate in Mexico. [From the Data Explorer here ]
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Edouard Mathieu 246d ago
All of 's data on COVID-19 testing has been updated for 25th May. You can explore it for all countries here: and in our Data Explorer:
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Edouard Mathieu 152d ago
All of 's data on confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths has just been updated for August 27. You can explore it at Here are the 10 countries confirming the highest number of new daily cases at the moment, relative to their population.
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Barry Ritholtz 197d ago
These regions managed coronavirus better than USA. They also are key revenue producers for FAANMGs. Data suggest much of the world is way ahead of the U.S. not only in terms of managing their pandemics, but in their economic recoveries. 7/
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Nsikan Akpan 91d ago
Worse: Europe is basically where the U.S. has been since June in terms of COVID-19 daily deaths per million people via
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Volker Weber 223d ago
If your governor tells you that you have so many cases because you test so much, compare with Germany and Denmark. Number of tests per confirmed case
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Edouard Mathieu 155d ago
All of 's data on confirmed #COVID19 cases and deaths has just been updated. You can explore it at After managing to keep the pandemic under control from April to July, Uganda is now confirming more than a hundred new cases every day.
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Edouard Mathieu 111d ago
All of 's data on confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths has just been updated. You can explore it at The number of daily deaths in Russia has been increasing for the last month, and could soon be back at the level of the country's first peak.
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Santi Juarros 133d ago
Un éxito la estrategia sanitaria de Pueden ver las estadísticas acá:
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Dina D. Pomeranz 104d ago
Switzerland now has both a higher rate of detected Covid-19 infections and a higher positive rate. Death rates (still) remain much lower. But we urgently need to change trajectory! Ht
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Edouard Mathieu 167d ago
All of 's data on #COVID19 cases, deaths, and testing has just been updated. Explore it here: The number of confirmed cases has been increasing very rapidly in Lebanon for the last month, with a 7-day average now close to 300 daily cases.
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Edouard Mathieu 110d ago
Since August 1, there have been a total of (at least): • 4,117 new deaths in Spain • 2,191 new deaths in France • 1,346 new deaths in the UK Looking at the cumulative total of deaths for each country makes this harder to miss. 👇 (Source: )
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Edouard Mathieu 175d ago
Not sure when this screenshot was taken, but certainly not today. Here is the current situation (absolute numbers on the left, per capita on the right). Obviously the situation is terrible in the US right now, but FR and SP are far from 0 case. (Source: )
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Max Roser 98d ago
Estonia has overall done very well. They saw outbreaks but were then able to turn them around quickly. They are also one of the few European countries that currently see cases falling. [source ]
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Papu 99d ago
There was a step change in the Swiss R on ~6th Oct. What did they change *around that time* that could have caused this?
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Jonathan Cohn 148d ago
According to this article, the idea is to adopt the same strategy as Sweden, which is one of the few advanced countries where deaths/million is worse than in the U.S. (though U.S. catching up fast).
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Edouard Mathieu 127d ago
All of 's data on confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths has just been updated for September 21. You can explore it at Iran is struggling to control COVID-19 durably and is now facing a third large increase of deaths since the pandemic began.
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Edouard Mathieu 237d ago
All of 's data on COVID-19 testing has been updated for 3rd June. You can explore it for all countries here: and in our Data Explorer:
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Max Roser 237d ago
Differences in the rate of confirmed #COVID19 deaths: • Germany is 19-times higher than Korea • The US is more than 3-times higher than Germany • The UK is 80% higher than the US [for all countries in the world: ]
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Jamie Uhrig 106d ago
Is community transmission of #covid19 #coronavirus decreasing in #Myanmar?
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Teemu Roos 108d ago
, I don’t think that’s the countries that have the highest death rates.
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Max Roser 253d ago
The latest data on the #COVID19 pandemic in South America. [this is from our Data Explorer where you can also see the data in per capita terms and see the statistics on testing for the virus and on confirmed cases.]
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Max Roser 244d ago
A point that gets repeated in the British #COVID19 discussion is that only countries in East Asia did better and that this might be because the UK did not have the experience of SARS. This is not the case. [source where you can add all countries: ]
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Max Roser 109d ago
The rate of confirmed cases in Europe over the last week. The top 3 are: 1 – Czech Republic: 354 per million 2 – Netherlands: 264 3 – the UK: 214 … Germany: 35 Serbia: 14 Global data in our Data Explorer:
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Max Roser 134d ago
Terrible to see the data from Argentina. The positive rate has been increasing for 5 months. Now more than every second(!) test is confirming a case of COVID-19. [the source is our Global Data Explorer ]
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Our World in Data 256d ago
It was quite a big effort for our small team to build this Data Explorer, but we see it as a first version and are very keen to hear you feedback. What do you find useful? What does not work for you? → Here it is
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Max Roser 199d ago
Another way of seeing just how fast the pandemic is spreading now: Up to April 8 there were fewer confirmed cases than in the last week alone. [source ]
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Max Roser 224d ago
And these big differences are not because the US is testing more extensively. The opposite is the case: the positivity rate in the US is higher than in all of these countries. [Source ]
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Max Roser 253d ago
A screenshot from our Coronavirus Data Explorer where you can explore the data on tests, cases and deaths. Shown are the daily confirmed deaths due to COVID19 in the world’s nine largest countries outside of China.
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Max Roser 244d ago
One big difference between the UK and the European countries that responded well is that other tested much more, much sooner. [source where you can add all countries: ]
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Max Roser 223d ago
This is comparison of the death rate from confirmed COVID-19 deaths in the EU and the US. In both regions the rate is falling. The rate at which people in the US are dying is currently 5-times higher than in the EU. [the interactive chart ]
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Max Roser 124d ago
Most African countries for which we have data have a high positive rate – indicating that their testing isn’t sufficient for the size of their outbreaks. But there are 4 countries with low rates: Ghana 2.5% Togo 1.5% Rwanda 1% and Malawi 1.9% [→ ]
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Max Roser 194d ago
But the US as a whole is going the other direction. The rate of positive tests is now at 8.7%. [at the source you can compare the US with other countries ]
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Max Roser 194d ago
Before reading the news on the pandemic I’d recommend looking at the data yourself. To understand what’s happening I spend quite some time every day seeing the evidence via our pandemic Data Explorer
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Brad DeLong 🖖🏻 210d ago
Why Were University of Chicago Professional <strike>Economists</strike> Republicans So Stupid About Coronavirus? I look at the Trump professional <strike>economists</strike> Republicans—Kevin Hassett, Tomas Philipson, 1/
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Our World in Data 241d ago
The average number of confirmed #COVID19 deaths in Europe over the last 3 days. [interactive in our Data Explorer ] Per capita rate in next tweet →
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Max Roser 244d ago
Charts on Our World in Data have a blue time slider below them. • You can use it to focus on the time span that is of interest to you. • And if you bring both ends together to the same time point the line chart turns into a bar chart. Try it out
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Max Roser 175d ago
The comparison with South Korea and Germany is what the interviewer was interested in, if you want to compare any other country in the world you can do so on our site here (you also find data on cases, tests, and many, many more statistics)
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Max Roser 161d ago
The positive rate in South Africa is still very high (20%) so that many cases will be missed. So we need to be careful to not overstate the positive signs, but – the %-rate is now falling, – confirmed cases too, – and also deaths are declining. [source ]
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Max Roser 122d ago
After the third wave of cases, Iran is now also seeing the third wave of deaths from COVID-19. [interactive ]
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Max Roser 160d ago
The day at which cases are reported is not the day at which people get infected. If you report case counts of individual days you are reporting this noise. (It’s similar for other countries )
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Max Roser 249d ago
And this is how the number of confirmed deaths due to COVID-19 changed within the last 14 days across the Americas. Direct link to this in the Explorer
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Our World in Data 163d ago
The 10 countries with the highest confirmed death count – cumulative since the beginning of the pandemic: Belgium 857 deaths per million Peru 791 Spain 612 UK 609 Italy 585 Sweden 573 Chile 544 United States 512 Brazil 505 France 466 [interactive ]
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Max Roser 226d ago
We don’t have testing data for all these 10 countries. For those countries for which we have testing data we see that they are testing little in relation to the size of the outbreak. []
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Max Roser 241d ago
Here are daily new numbers of confirmed deaths in the same countries. [direct link if you want to see this in the Data Explorer ]
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Max Roser 241d ago
Confirmed deaths due to #COVID19 across Africa. The six countries with most deaths are Egypt, Algeria, South Africa, Nigeria, Sudan and Morocco. [interactive in our Data Explorer where you can compare with all countries in the world & view it per capita ]
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Our World in Data 241d ago
The average rate (per million people) of confirmed #COVID19 deaths in Europe over the last 3 days. [interactive in our Data Explorer ]
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Max Roser 108d ago
If you want to see a ranking of all the world's countries by death rate you find it here: The screenshot shows the top section of that ranking.
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Max Roser 98d ago
Estonia also tested widely. They monitored the outbreak well and as a consequence their positive rate stayed low. [source ]
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Max Roser 98d ago
And these are the current death rates across Europe. Again, a huge inequality between places: the Czech Republic at the top and Estonia and Cyprus without any deaths in the last week. [source ]
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Max Roser 179d ago
Here you can compare the outbreaks in all countries in the world
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Max Roser 91d ago
Armenia is suffering a very rapidly surging second wave of COVID-19. [From the Data Explorer ]
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Andrew Coyne 246d ago
Here’s total deaths per million. Again, Sweden is near the top — not as bad as the very worst hit countries, but worse than the vast majority and much worse than most.
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Max Roser 134d ago
And this is the number of daily confirmed deaths in Argentina. [same source ]
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Max Roser 106d ago
I agree with the authors. Below is our data in which I compare the positive rate in the US with countries that are testing well. The US is still testing way too little. The US can and should do much better – to save money and lives. [data ]
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Dina D. Pomeranz 148d ago
Wie sich die Covid-19 Ansteckungen in der Schweiz beschleunigen: - von 50-100 Ansteckungen pro Tag (7-Tage Schnitt) ging es 17 Tage - von 100-150 pro Tag: 16 Tage - von 150-200 pro Tag: 13 Tage - von 200-250 pro Tag: 9 Tage - von 250-300 pro Tag: 7 Tage
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Max Roser 111d ago
You find the data on the positive rate, cases, deaths, and more (also over time) in our Data Explorer
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Library Journal 254d ago
New Interactive Research Tool: Our World in #Data Releases the “Coronavirus Pandemic Data Explorer ||| Intro Twitter Thread #to
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John Langford 123d ago
The EU has a larger older population, a more porous border, a weaker central government, and was hit earlier by the pandemic, yet the US has about twice the fatality rate . I've tried to help while watching failure unfold 😞 Please vote.
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Max Roser 98d ago
And the death count also stayed low in Estonia. After deaths in the spring the small country was able to largely avoid any additional deaths: since mid-May only 4 people died from COVID-19 in Estonia. [source: ]
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ikirigin 98d ago
Europe passes the United States in new cases per capita.
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Jason Crawford 129d ago
UPDATE: Not seeing this huge drop anymore. Must have been a temporary problem with the data. Glad testing has not declined precipitously
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Francisco Mejía 130d ago
Cumulative confirmed COVID-19 deaths: Sweden (NO-lockdown) vs. Denmark, Finland and Norway (lockdown). More deaths by a factor of 10. But, Sweden's labor market performed slightly better. Worth it?
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Dr. Peter A Singer, OC 105d ago
Cumulative confirmed COVID-19 deaths per million people, Oct 12, 2020, G20 countries
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Max Roser 100d ago
You can explore all this data for yourself in our Data Explorer There you also find global data and data on confirmed cases, number of tests, and much more
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Max Roser 190d ago
Confirmed cases are down sharply; tests are up. [You can explore these metrics for Nepal – or any other country – in our Data Explorer ]
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Max Roser 123d ago
And despite the extremely poor testing in Argentina the case rate is very high and rising. (Source )
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🚶🏻‍♀️💭🏞 93d ago
a ton of countries are now doing worse than the United States in per capita Covid-19 cases, and no I don't really know what happened. it's a little like all of Europe just said "fuck it"
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Max Roser 220d ago
You also find it in the Coronavirus Data Explorer – there you can also switch between metrics as you see in the video. And in the rest of the publication too. This new table view is implemented on all the many thousand charts on our site now.
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Stephan Guyenet, PhD 243d ago
Meanwhile, several countries have contained the virus, and many are making good progress toward that goal.
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Dina D. Pomeranz 219d ago
Quelle: Dort könne auch andere Länder und andere Variablen abgerufen werden.
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Max Roser 91d ago
You find more information on the positive rate here: [The source of the map is ]
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Vincent Rajkumar 241d ago
You can change it whichever way you want. Here it is in linear scale.
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Dina D. Pomeranz 151d ago
Schweiz, quo vadis? Wenn der Trend der Neuansteckungen der letzten Wochen anhält, sind wir in drei Wochen wieder bei rund 600 Fällen pro Tag (7-Tage Durchschnitt)...
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🚶🏻‍♀️💭🏞 132d ago
daily SARS-CoV-2 cases per million (log scale) since total cases per million people reach 1 and test positivity tiers (in color)
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Carl Baker 159d ago
Croatia was on the cards but I imagine some might be surprised by Austria - only showed signs of passing the govt's infection threshold in the past few days
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(((Christian JB))) 🐌 108d ago
UK now seeing significantly more cases per capita than the US. Deaths are still lower.
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Max Roser 246d ago
The direct link to the comparison of confirmed death rates across Europe is here
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Michelle Wille 239d ago
Four different countries I've lived in with 4 wildly different #COVID19 trajectories. Granted its hard to compare due to large differences in testing strategies as well as public health measures, but interesting anyway! Sauce:
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LJ's infoDOCKET 255d ago
New Interactive Research Tool: Our World in #Data Releases the "Coronavirus Pandemic Data Explorer ||| Intro Twitter Thread #to
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Gunnar Björnsson 163d ago
I den graf artikeln hänvisar till framgår tydligt hur puckeln börjar precis när testningen breddas, och faller när man kunde vänta sig att poolen tidigare smittade inte längre testar positiv med pcr.
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Max Roser 249d ago
How the number of confirmed deaths due to COVID-19 changed within the last 14 days across Europe. Direct link to this in the Explorer (didn’t know that this chart would be possible when we designed the new Data Explorer, but an interesting view I think.)
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Max Roser 123d ago
And deaths are unfortunately also rising very rapidly in Argentina. [Source (also with data for any place in the world): )]
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Dr. Rooftop, MD 170d ago
Some countries do better than others when it comes to deaths from covid 19…why? Fewer cases? Better therapy? Link above is “aligned” at 0.1 deaths per million defining t=0. Here’s a video in calendar time. #CCPVirus #COVID19
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Jorge Stolfi 112d ago
Hooray, Brazil is world champion of COVID-19 deaths per million hab! It started with a 5-week delay, but it easily surpassed Spain and the US. Will the US still be able to catch up?
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Jason Crawford 252d ago
The US covid trends are in the right direction (if not as fast as we'd like). 7-day rolling average of daily new cases peaked on Apr 11 and has fallen over 25%, same metric for deaths peaked Apr 22 and is down almost 50%. Source: dashboard
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(((Christian JB))) 🐌 170d ago
Ireland's cases are growing again, and we have now overtaken the UK for cases per capita. (Log scale)
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(((Christian JB))) 🐌 113d ago
UK overtakes the US in confirmed cases per million. The UK still has far fewer confirmed deaths per million though.
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Max Roser 189d ago
in case someone wants to try it out, here is our COVID Data Explorer
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Dr. Peter A Singer, OC 128d ago
Cumulative confirmed COVID-19 deaths per million people, G20 countries, Sep 20, 2020
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(((Christian JB))) 🐌 128d ago
Things looking quite scary in Europe right now. Confirmed cases rising by quite a lot, but deaths still relatively low.
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radical professor indoctrinating centr 224d ago
This website is good about letting you make comparisons between different countries' COVID outbreaks. I feel really lucky to be living in Canada, especially BC, right now
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Max Roser 241d ago
Some large countries don't yet show any sign of bending the curve. Neither in confirmed cases – shown here – nor in confirmed deaths (see next tweet). [Interactive in our Data Explorer ]
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David Keith 132d ago
1/2 One of these rich western countries is not like the others. The US just passed Italy in cumulative COVID death rate, it will likely pass UK this month. Data explorer at:
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Lucia Ruggiero EALR 182d ago
.: Italy was one of the hardest-hit countries and back in March every 4th test the country did was positive. Now Italy has one of the very lowest rates of positive COVID-19 tests worldwide: 0.5%. ]
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Max Roser 97d ago
And the death rate is also rising very rapidly –  its far exceeding the spring-peak of the pandemic in the country. [source for all data (where you also find data for other countries): ]
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