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Global Covid Cases

Text for a selected block appears below the table, graphics appear in a new page. Graphics are cluttered due to using only 10 colours, intent was to see if belonging to a bloc led to a uniform repsonse. The graphs show the answer. Not.

There are four blocs for Africa, due to the number of countries. These are Africa North of the Equator, South of the Equator, West of 15 degrees East, and East of 15. For these blocs, the data plotting start date for deaths per cases rate has been offset, as some countries often showed very high case-fatality rate in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. The latitudes and longitudes for the countries in these blocs are from the Johns Hopkins University data, and for each country are the coordinates of the centroid; thus South of the Equator means the centroid for the country is located South of 0, not that the entire country is South of 0. West of 15 degrees East roughly contains the entire northern bulge of Africa, most of the countries West of Prague or Chad.

In the early days, the number of deaths can be equal to the number of cases for some countries so death rate looks like 100%. This is simply a function of data gathering and testing getting up to speed. Eventually the rate of death per confirmed case is trending towards 2 to 4%. The huge weight of the USA (25 percent of the total) on the numbers affects the global case-fatality weight.

Average Daily Cases are computed using a moving 7 day average, to smooth out reporting latency. JHU reports cumulative cases, so to increase plotting speed, I pre-compute a table of daily delta cases (new cases) and then sum those for the major jurisdiction (example Canada, not each province or the UK including territories) and then compute the moving average. We present the Absolute (daily total) and the Per 10K (divided 10K population) metric.

Confirmed Cases: Data for OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development)

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