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October 8, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. This week the World Health Organisation (WHO) suggested that ten percent of the world’s population may have been infected with Covid19. While my estimates fall well short of this number for the world as a whole, they certainly show many countries with higher infection rates to date than ten percent. The ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis: Covid-19 Case Estimates" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/08/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid-19-case-estimates/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis: Covid-19 Case Estimates">Read more</a>
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September 18, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. In mid-September, new cases of Covid19 are higher than they have ever been. (See here for previous weekly charts, which included the ‘little’ countries.) While this still-rising incidence is partly due to more testing, it is also due to significant new outbreaks in the Levant (Israel, Palestine, Lebanon) and in Europe. ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19 in mid-September: New Cases, Worst Cases" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/18/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid-19-in-mid-september-new-cases-worst-cases/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19 in mid-September: New Cases, Worst Cases">Read more</a>
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September 15, 2020
By Christine Rovoi, RNZ Pacific Journalist A Fijian psychologist is calling on people in Fiji to work together to tackle issues associated with mental health amid the covid-19 pandemic. Addressing a prayer vigil to remember the victims of suicide in Suva, Dr Selina Kuruleca said people must assist one another and reach out to those ... <a title="Call for unity over mental health in Fiji amid covid-19 virus pandemic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/15/call-for-unity-over-mental-health-in-fiji-amid-covid-19-virus-pandemic/" aria-label="Read more about Call for unity over mental health in Fiji amid covid-19 virus pandemic">Read more</a>
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September 13, 2020
Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards Over the last three years there have been growing calls for the government to provide dental services under the health system – universal free dental care. This is because at the moment there’s an anomaly in which teeth are regarded as different from the rest of the body which means ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: The missing election policy on free dental visits" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/13/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-the-missing-election-policy-on-free-dental-visits/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: The missing election policy on free dental visits">Read more</a>
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September 11, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The first chart shows the growth of Covid19 in Australia using an arithmetic scale. This means the axis labels on the left increase by a given number of cases; in this chart it is increments of 5,000 cases per 10 million people. Australia is currently sitting on just over 10,000 cases ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19: Australia to Scale" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/11/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid-19-australia-to-scale/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19: Australia to Scale">Read more</a>
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September 4, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Since its first death (in China) in January, 873 thousand people worldwide have died from Covid19. The chart shows the population-adjusted death tolls for the most-affected countries (excluding countries with less than 300,000 people. (San Marino – with 34,000 people – actually has the highest death rate.) In recent days, Peru ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19: Countries with most Deaths and Cases to date" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/04/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid-19-countries-with-most-deaths-and-cases-to-date/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19: Countries with most Deaths and Cases to date">Read more</a>
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August 23, 2020
Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards. There’s a debate raging about how serious the Government’s Covid-19 border testing botch-ups are. Many Labour partisans are calling complaints and media investigations into border management a beat-up and overly-aggressive. They claim problems at the border are being exaggerated, with testing failures of minor importance in the government’s overall success in ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: How serious are the Govt’s border botch-ups?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/23/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-how-serious-are-the-govts-border-botch-ups/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: How serious are the Govt’s border botch-ups?">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Early Identification and Action We are now learning, from Covid19, one thing above all else. With epidemics, it is early identification and action that matters. When our Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, says that New Zealand’s government approach is to “go hard and go early”, she is only partly correct. What matters ... <a title="Keith Rankin – Epidemic Costs and Responses: Coronavirus and Tuberculosis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/20/keith-rankin-epidemic-costs-and-responses-coronavirus-and-tuberculosis/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin – Epidemic Costs and Responses: Coronavirus and Tuberculosis">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Today’s chart compares this week’s Covid-19 outbreak in New Zealand with the latest case-data from other comparable countries. Note that the data plots new daily cases, smoothed using seven-day averages. However, the ‘black square’ represents New Zealand’s most recent daily total of new cases, at 260 per 100 million people (which ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: Comparing New Zealand’s Outbreak with Comparable Countries" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/14/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid19-comparing-new-zealands-outbreak-with-comparable-countries/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: Comparing New Zealand’s Outbreak with Comparable Countries">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. This week’s first chart shows the huge European wave of Covid-19 in March. At its exponential peak, the chart shows world Covid19 weekly deaths increasing by 260 percent in the second week of March, compared to March’s first week. This European wave contrasts sharply with the last week of February, when ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Global Covid19: European Wave and Rising Tail" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/23/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-global-covid19-european-wave-and-rising-tail/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Global Covid19: European Wave and Rising Tail">Read more</a>
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July 17, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. This chart orders countries by their Covid19 death rates in the seven days to 16 July. The seven worst countries are in Latin America; all except Panama being large countries. Two other large Latin American countries (Guatemala and Ecuador) are in the top 11 for recent Covid19 deaths. Of the larger countries ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: Recent Cases and Deaths" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/17/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid19-recent-cases-and-deaths/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: Recent Cases and Deaths">Read more</a>
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July 10, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. These charts look at Covid19 incidence in China (the most important first-wave country, with a limited second wave), Italy (the lead second-wave country), and USA and Australia (second-wave countries – drawing their caseload from Europe – with limited first-wave exposure from Asia in January and February). Chart 1 shows the first-wave in ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: Comparing China, Italy, USA and Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/10/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid19-comparing-china-italy-usa-and-australia/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: Comparing China, Italy, USA and Australia">Read more</a>
