Covid after 2 years

Is the Covid over or is it just slowing down once again ? Should we excpect a new covid every year or every other year just like we do expect flu pandemic ? As I am not aspecialist, I would not know. What I can observe is a new slow down, in Western Europe but … Lire la suite

Covid update on 16 Jan 2022: finally much less lethal

Let’s check the daily mortality per million inhabitants. Only Bulgaria remains at a very high rate, above 10 deaths per million inhabitants per day Croatia , Hungary, and Poland have just dropped below 10 The Czech Republic, Slovakia, Greece, Latvia in Europe, Georgia  in Asia and Bolivia In the Americas are still above 4 (and … Lire la suite

Covid update on 1 Jan 2022: the long tail

Let’s check the death rate during the last four weeks. The graph shows the daily mortality per million inhabitants on the y-axis and the cumulative mortality per million inhabitants on the x-axis since the start of the epidemic. The name of the country in ISO-3A code is next to the most recent data. It should … Lire la suite

Covid update on 21 Nov 2021

EUROPE Let’s check the death rate during the last four weeks in the European Union (EU), the European Free Trade Agreement (EFTA) zone, the United Kingdom and the USA. The graph shows the daily mortality per million inhabitants on the y-axis and the cumulative mortality per million inhabitants on the x-axis since the start of … Lire la suite

Covid update at mid-Oct 2021

The pandemic has slowed down. All the analysis are based on ECDC figures. Countries do not have similar health infrastructure or reporting, So I am comparing numbers which do have a different basis. This article uses three types of graphs: cumulative death rates, daily death rates and daily vs total death rate. Cumulative numbers Here … Lire la suite

COVID on 15 June 2021: seasonality?

It seems that we may be switching back to a more normal life, going to restaurants, movies and museums. All EU countries have changed from (very) high death rate to very low rates in a few weeks (chart 1). Even Iran covid motality is now low. My opinion is that these decreases of the Covid … Lire la suite

COVID update on 25 May

for the European Union, the United Kingdom and the US of America. The graph below shows the daily COVID death per million inhabitants against the cumulative death rate since the beginning of 2020. The curve shows the evolution for the past month for each country. The country name is close to the latest value. Basically … Lire la suite

COVID on 5 April 2021, contrasted impacts

This graph below shows the daily death rate country in the five most populated countries in Europe (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK) and the USA. Germany and the UK are dropping below 2 deaths per day per million inhabitants (DPDPM). Italy is quite high around 7. The three others begin to re-increase (third … Lire la suite

COVID on 2 Nov 2020, the second wave.

the second wave This graph shows the daily death rate country by country in the EU (and EFTA) countries as well as the UK (violet) and the USA (red). Any country above the 1.5 mark is at risk. The Czech Republic is badly hit at 16 deaths per million per day. . If the Eastern … Lire la suite

COVID on 2 Nov 2020, the most impacted countries

most impacted countries There are 19 countries which have a COVID related death rate over 500 per million year-to-date. This 500 level is to be compared to last year country death rate. In 2019, at the high end, Latvia has experienced 14 530 deaths per million. At the low end, Colombia had 4 768 deaths … Lire la suite