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March 10, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. This summary, of reported cases of people testing positive for Covid19, and deaths recorded of people with Covid19, is the first to include New Zealand. Reported Positive Cases: All Countries (except Turkmenistan and North Korea) Most countries in this list are experiencing a covid-omicron wave of cases, but have relatively few ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19 in 2022: First Week of March" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/10/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid19-in-2022-first-week-of-march/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19 in 2022: First Week of March">Read more</a>
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March 8, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. These five charts look at five countries for which excess death information is available. First, it is important to note that I am presenting a different definition of excess deaths than other sources, in that these charts include seasonal excess deaths arising from triggers other than Covid19. Switzerland, the Optimistic Note ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19 in 2022: Four Problems and one Not" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/08/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid19-in-2022-four-problems-and-one-not/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19 in 2022: Four Problems and one Not">Read more</a>
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March 4, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Covid has a habit of biting us on the bum, just as key milestones seem to be behind us. A diverse range of countries are facing current setbacks: eg Chile, Colombia, Bulgaria (where one in a hundred people have died from Covid), Hong Kong, South Korea, Israel. In Ukraine, there have ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19 Concerns: Israel, South Korea and others" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/04/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid19-concerns-israel-south-korea-and-others/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19 Concerns: Israel, South Korea and others">Read more</a>
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February 24, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The mainstream political narrative that emerged in late March 2020 was a ‘narrative of fear’ which set up the Covid19 coronavirus as a ‘tricky’ enemy that was out to get us by finding ways through our defences; and that we had to build collective barrier defences; defences such as lockdowns, border ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Omicron Covid and Political Narrative" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/24/keith-rankin-analysis-omicron-covid-and-political-narrative/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Omicron Covid and Political Narrative">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Last week I published charts for six countries showing excess deaths triggered by all seasonal and respiratory maladies, not just Covid19. The other main conditions that show up in excess deaths are epidemic influenza and the group of endemic viral infections commonly known as the ‘common cold’. Here I look at ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis: Respiratory Viruses: Seasonal Mortality Compared (2)" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/23/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-respiratory-viruses-seasonal-mortality-compared-2/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis: Respiratory Viruses: Seasonal Mortality Compared (2)">Read more</a>
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February 11, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Omicron Cases. These two charts show the recent upsurge in reported Covid19 cases in the two larger countries with the most cases. (See my recent January league charts for where these countries fit in relation to others.) Both Denmark and Israel recently peaked with over 7,500 daily cases per million people; ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid Omicron in Two High Immunity Countries: Denmark and Israel" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/11/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid-omicron-in-two-high-immunity-countries-denmark-and-israel/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid Omicron in Two High Immunity Countries: Denmark and Israel">Read more</a>
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February 4, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Including the small countries As for most of the second half of 2021, the small principalities and territories (and former territories) of the European colonial powers show up highly in these charts of covid casualty countries. One of the great untold stories of Covid19 has been the impact of SARS-Cov2 (and ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19 January league: Beginning of the End" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/04/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid19-january-league-beginning-of-the-end/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19 January league: Beginning of the End">Read more</a>
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December 23, 2021
The first chart shows all countries and territories. The little places – many islands (ie with natural moats) – get their chance to compete with the big 'guys'. There has never been evidence that islands are somehow safer from Covid19 than countries with land borders.
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December 21, 2021
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Public policy has a number of biases. One is that certain real or alleged emergencies require (or seem to require) an urgent policy intervention. The result is a consortium of elected politicians, bureaucrat officials, and expert technocrats get on board, and assume a drivers’ role in a society which would otherwise ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Visualising a Way out of the Pandemic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/21/keith-rankin-analysis-visualising-a-way-out-of-the-pandemic/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Visualising a Way out of the Pandemic">Read more</a>
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December 20, 2021
While the Omicron strain of Covid19 was first sequenced in South Africa, it was found independently in the Netherlands in November. So, while Netherlands was one of the European countries which caught the latest sudden European wave (mainly featuring Delta), most likely the Omicron strain was already spreading there; indeed the main constraint on the growth of Omicron in Netherlands was probably Delta.
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December 17, 2021
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Sweden Re Covid19, Sweden remains the enigma country that almost nobody wants to talk about, because the Swedish scientists may have been correct all along (although the Swedish bureaucrats certainly had significant shortcomings in the early months of the pandemic). The first chart shows five waves of covid in Sweden. The ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: Scandinavia, Poland and Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/17/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid19-scandinavia-poland-and-australia/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: Scandinavia, Poland and Australia">Read more</a>
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December 15, 2021
Analysis by Keith Rankin. United States of America The first United States chart shows both recorded covid deaths and excess deaths. (For all countries more recent ‘recorded covid deaths’ data is available.) Generally we see a broad match between the two series in terms of timing, though for the first two United States covid waves ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: United States and South Korea as the pandemic approaches two years" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/15/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid19-united-states-and-south-korea-as-the-pandemic-approaches-two-years/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: United States and South Korea as the pandemic approaches two years">Read more</a>
