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June 21, 2023
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The Pandemic can be assessed a bit like games of football, with deaths being the score. (Or, given that there are many ‘teams’ competing together, a better analogy may be a Marathon race. Nevertheless, I will use the language of the football metaphor.) The winning country would be that with the ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Covid19 Mortality Assessment – the Pandemic ‘World Cup’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/21/keith-rankin-analysis-covid19-mortality-assessment-the-pandemic-world-cup/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Covid19 Mortality Assessment – the Pandemic ‘World Cup’">Read more</a>
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April 13, 2023
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Over Easter I relistened to Jim Mora’s RNZ interview (17 May 2020) of Johan Giesecke, “world leading epidemiologist” and Professor Emeritus at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. In the period April to June 2020, Sweden gained notoriety for its divergent public health policies with respect to the management of the ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Sweden and Covid19: Three Years after the World’s Attention" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/13/keith-rankin-analysis-sweden-and-covid19-three-years-after-the-worlds-attention/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Sweden and Covid19: Three Years after the World’s Attention">Read more</a>
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March 27, 2023
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The ‘Young Elderly’ are in essence the post-war baby-boomers. An average young elderly person in these charts was born around 1950 to 1952. The charts look at ‘quarterly excess deaths’, so do not show week-by-week fluctuations in deaths. For example, data for the very end of 2022 covers the whole ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – The Pandemic: Young Elderly Deaths in Europe, USA and New Zealand" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/27/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-the-pandemic-young-elderly-deaths-in-europe-usa-and-new-zealand/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – The Pandemic: Young Elderly Deaths in Europe, USA and New Zealand">Read more</a>
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March 14, 2023
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Germany’s Deadliest Weeks since World War Two? – Spiralling Deaths in Germany The four weeks ending 8 January 2023 have seen easily the most deaths in Germany of any four‑week period since 2015. The worst week was the week ending Christmas Day, with 28,481 deaths. While it’s hard to compare with pre-1990 ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Germany’s Deadliest Weeks since World War Two?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/14/keith-rankin-analysis-germanys-deadliest-weeks-since-world-war-two/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Germany’s Deadliest Weeks since World War Two?">Read more</a>
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March 12, 2023
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The chart above is quite alarming, and not only because of Germany’s high death toll. It’s the difference between reported Covid19 deaths and excess deaths, in the context where four waves of excess deaths in Germany in 2022 are clearly ‘epidemic’ in nature. And we see the same death waves in ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Death Spikes and Covid Dissonance? Examples of Germany and Denmark" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/12/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-death-spikes-and-covid-dissonance-examples-of-germany-and-denmark/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Death Spikes and Covid Dissonance? Examples of Germany and Denmark">Read more</a>
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March 7, 2023
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The most important question about the Covid19 pandemic of the early 2020s is ‘how many people died?’. (The second-most important question relates to the impact of the pandemic on people’s ‘quality of life’.) The data here, available since last week, is the starting point for an answer to the first question. ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Covid19 Pandemic-era Facts: Irrefutable, Inconvenient, Important" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/07/keith-rankin-analysis-covid19-pandemic-era-facts-irrefutable-inconvenient-important/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Covid19 Pandemic-era Facts: Irrefutable, Inconvenient, Important">Read more</a>
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October 19, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. A few weeks ago this article from Stuff (24 Sep) was drawn to my attention: The shocking stats that prove Covid19 does not kill equally. While I have some problems with the article’s interpretation of the data, by and large the article itself was reasonable. Less so the headline, which is ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Does Covid19 discriminate against Māori and Pasifika New Zealanders?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/19/keith-rankin-analysis-does-covid19-discriminate-against-maori-and-pasifika-new-zealanders/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Does Covid19 discriminate against Māori and Pasifika New Zealanders?">Read more</a>
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October 17, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Here we see charts of the same ten western tourist countries of Europe (refer to my Travel Warning: Excess Summer Deaths in Europe, 5 Oct 2022). It is important to note from the outset that ‘reported death’ figures have become increasingly unreliable. And reported cases are now unreliable indicators of the ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Tourist Europe again: Covid19 Waves compared" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/17/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-tourist-europe-again-covid19-waves-compared/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Tourist Europe again: Covid19 Waves compared">Read more</a>
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August 23, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Covid Excess Deaths: East Asia in context – These charts show excess pandemic mortality so far for a wide range of countries, geographically themed. The charts are structured to emphasise deaths in 2022 and 2021, and to facilitate comparative analysis between regions. (General mortality data is lacking for Africa and South ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Comparative analysis of excess deaths between and within the world’s regions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/23/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-comparative-analysis-of-excess-deaths-between-and-within-the-worlds-regions/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Comparative analysis of excess deaths between and within the world’s regions">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The chart above shows New Zealand’s aggregate weekly deaths from 2015. The normal winter experience is obvious, with 2015 to 2019 influenza peaks mainly in July and August, though in late June in 2019. New Zealand is different from most European countries in that it has significantly faster population growth. (Although ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid Demography: New Zealand in context of North and West Europe" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/19/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid-demography-new-zealand-in-context-of-north-and-west-europe/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid Demography: New Zealand in context of North and West Europe">Read more</a>
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August 10, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. This morning, RNZ played the following story: Health stats show 87 people have died in their homes from Covid-19 since March, which references New Zealand’s most media-visible expert, Dr Michael Baker. (And this on today’s Morning Report.) Before commenting on today’s story, it is pertinent to check out a story published ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – Public Health Watch: Where Does Michael Baker get his Facts from?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/10/keith-rankin-essay-public-health-watch-where-does-michael-baker-get-his-facts-from/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – Public Health Watch: Where Does Michael Baker get his Facts from?">Read more</a>
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August 5, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. A couple of weeks ago I received a number of articles mainly about Covid19 deaths in the United States. (See below.) As I have noted in the past, it is important to address the reported facts, rather than to ignore them. As they stand, these articles are being used to question ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: Is there a Significant Covid19 Toll of Younger People?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/05/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid19-is-there-a-significant-covid19-toll-of-younger-people/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: Is there a Significant Covid19 Toll of Younger People?">Read more</a>
