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March 23, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The two charts here are presented using a ‘logarithmic’ scale. This is the appropriate way of representing any data time series that would normally exhibit exponential growth. ‘Exponential growth’ means that normal growth is measured in percentage terms rather than actual numbers. Common measures that grow exponentially are consumer prices (this ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19 Virus: Slowing Exponential Growth in Italy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/23/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid-19-virus-slowing-exponential-growth-in-italy/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19 Virus: Slowing Exponential Growth in Italy">Read more</a>
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March 23, 2020
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content Coronavirus – public health strategies Bryce Edwards (Herald): Political Roundup: Should the Government be locking the country down now? Ella Prendergast and Dan Satherley (Newshub): NZ only eight days behind the UK – ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – March 23 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/23/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-march-23-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – March 23 2020">Read more</a>
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March 22, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. While the number of cases of Covid-19 remains very small relative to the world’s population, a number of prominent people have been caught up in it. It seems to be very much an international travellers’ disease, with people who travel the most being at highest risk. The highest incidences of Covid‑19 ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19 Virus: A Jetsetter Disease?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/22/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid-19-virus-a-jetsetter-disease/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19 Virus: A Jetsetter Disease?">Read more</a>
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March 22, 2020
The Government says it is “going hard and going early” to deal with the Coronavirus pandemic. But how true is this? Some public health experts and commentators do not believe the Government is being radical enough, and that the consequences, in terms of life and death, could be huge. Leading the charge for a more ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Should the Government be locking the country down now?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/22/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-should-the-government-be-locking-the-country-down-now/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Should the Government be locking the country down now?">Read more</a>
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March 19, 2020
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content Coronavirus – public health strategies David Fisher (Herald): Avoiding Italy’s fate – and how we cope when the virus hits NZ (paywalled) Phillip Hill and James Ussher (Newshub): How Asian countries are winning in ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – March 19 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/19/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-march-19-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – March 19 2020">Read more</a>
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March 18, 2020
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content Coronavirus – govt rescue package & reaction, economy Brad Olsen (Guardian): New Zealand’s coronavirus stimulus leaves the working poor most exposed Hamish Rutherford (Herald): A massive, economy-wide wage subsidy shows how serious the ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – March 18 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/18/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-march-18-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – March 18 2020">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2020
This chart shows the extent that the initial Chinese outbreak of Covid-19 was confined to Hubei province, a province with a population similar to that of Italy. And it shows that, while Hubei still has more recorded deaths per capita than Italy, Italy has more than twice as many active (unrecovered) cases per person. Italy’s ... <a title="Keith Rankin Graph Analysis – Covid-19 Virus: West is Worst" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/17/keith-rankin-graph-analysis-covid-19-virus-west-is-worst/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Graph Analysis – Covid-19 Virus: West is Worst">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2020
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content Coronavirus – government Chris Trotter (Interest): “We are all socialists now.” Tim Watkin (Pundit): Pulling Together In A Crisis: The Coalition’s Biggest Test. And Opportunity Luke Malpass (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern’s biggest task, heroic yet ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – March 17 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/17/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-march-17-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – March 17 2020">Read more</a>
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March 16, 2020
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content Coronavirus John Armstrong (1News): Bold measures in face of coronavirus could be Jacinda Ardern’s finest hour Luke Malpass (Stuff): Why this will be the most important week of Jacinda Ardern’s prime ministership Richard ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – March 16 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/16/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-march-16-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – March 16 2020">Read more</a>
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March 12, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin Will there be a resumption of normality? For a few weeks now, awareness has been growing that the global economic consequences of the Covid19 epidemic (that WHO today notes has “characteristics of a pandemic”) may be greater than the medical consequences, even if the European death rates fail to level‑off, even if ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Economic Emergency 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/12/keith-rankin-analysis-economic-emergency-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Economic Emergency 2020">Read more</a>
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March 12, 2020
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content Coronavirus Kate MacNamara (Stuff): The Government’s business continuity plan should include the wage cost of self-isolation Shamubeel Eaqub (RNZ): Don’t panic – a recession may not be what you think Press Editorial: Who pays ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – March 12 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/12/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-march-12-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – March 12 2020">Read more</a>
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March 11, 2020
EDITOR’S NOTE: Click here for a previous chart analysis by Keith Rankin on this issue. Chart analysis by Keith Rankin This chart of deaths by coronavirus (March deaths in red) clearly shows just how much worse this epidemic is in Italy than anywhere else. And the vast majority of these deaths are in Northern Italy. ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – UPDATE Covid-19 Virus: Deaths" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/11/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-update-covid-19-virus-deaths/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – UPDATE Covid-19 Virus: Deaths">Read more</a>
